The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 134

But in the brains of all these creatures he found not a single word, nor yet so much as the half of one; and under the tongues of the swallows, there was nothing uncommon.

Who acts: flock, nothing · What happens: not find, be · To what, where: single word, brains

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	35 was	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 brains	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brains	det
4	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 was	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 creatures	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 creatures	det:predet
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 creatures	det
8	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brains	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 found	nsubj
10	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 creatures	acl:relcl
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 found	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
13	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 word	amod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 much	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 much	cc
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 much	advmod
19	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 found	obj
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 half	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 half	det
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 much	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 one	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 half	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 tongues	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tongues	cc
27	under	under	ADP	_	29 tongues	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tongues	det
29	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 brains	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 swallows	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 swallows	det
32	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 tongues	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brains	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
36	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	35 was	nsubj
37	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nothing	amod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	past	flock	a single word					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent word=Theme much=Attribute
2	be	past	nothing			the brains of all creatures and the tongues of the swallows; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 134

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 134