The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 160
All things that are lost, all things that are forgotten, are stored away there; they lie in King Tuoni’s treasure house waiting for the day when all things will be remembered.
Who acts: things, treasure house · What happens: lose, forget, store away, lie, wait, remember · To what, where: things, treasure house
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 (things, treasure house), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stored | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 things | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 things | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 things | appos |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 forgotten | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 11 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 things | punct |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stored | aux:pass |
| 14 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 stored | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stored | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lie | nsubj |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stored | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | flat |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 24 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | compound |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lie | obl |
| 26 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 house | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 waiting | obl |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 remembered | advmod |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 things | det |
| 32 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 remembered | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 remembered | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 remembered | aux:pass |
| 35 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 waiting | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | all things | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | forget | present · passive | all things | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | store away | present · passive | all things | there | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | lie | present | things = thing | King's treasure house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | King's treasure house not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | remember | future · passive | all things | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme |
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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