The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 159

Many men have travelled thither—heroes not a few, woodsmen, fishermen, even fair women and tender children—but never has any one returned to tell of that land.

Who acts: Many men · What happens: travell, not have, return, tell · To what, where: heroes, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Many men), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	amod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travelled	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	aux
4	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	thither	thither	ADV	_	4 travelled	advmod
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 heroes	punct
7	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travelled	obl
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 woodsmen	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 woodsmen	det
10	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woodsmen	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woodsmen	punct
12	woodsmen	woodsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heroes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fishermen	punct
14	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 woodsmen	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 women	punct
16	even	even	ADV	_	18 women	advmod
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 women	amod
18	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 woodsmen	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 children	cc
20	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 woodsmen	conj
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 travelled	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 has	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 has	advmod
25	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 travelled	conj
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 has	obj
28	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 one	acl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 tell	mark
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 returned	advcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 land	case
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 land	det
33	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	travell	present · perfect	Many men	heroes a few woodsmen and fishermen and fair women and tender children	thither property	tree rules
2	not have	present	Many men not said here	any one		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	return	participle		any one not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			of that land	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 159

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 159