The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 18
Thus, ere long, it came about that the two friends were constantly and forever recalling the sweetest memories of their lives—memories which, strange to say, were also mingled with thoughts of experiences that had been unpleasant, painful, humiliating.
Who acts: subject, two friends, experiences · What happens: come, recall, say, mingle, be, humiliate · To what, where: sweetest memories, experiences · 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 (subject, two friends, experiences), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 came | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 17 recalling | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 recalling | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 friends | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 friends | nummod |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 recalling | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 recalling | aux |
| 14 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 17 recalling | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 recalling | cc |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 17 recalling | advmod |
| 17 | recalling | recall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 memories | det |
| 19 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 memories | amod |
| 20 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 recalling | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lives | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lives | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 memories | nmod |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 memories | punct |
| 25 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | conj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 strange | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 strange | punct |
| 28 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 memories | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 say | mark |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 strange | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mingled | punct |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 mingled | aux:pass |
| 33 | also | also | ADV | _ | 34 mingled | advmod |
| 34 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | parataxis |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 thoughts | case |
| 36 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 mingled | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 experiences | case |
| 38 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thoughts | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 unpleasant | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 unpleasant | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 unpleasant | cop |
| 42 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 experiences | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 painful | punct |
| 44 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 unpleasant | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 humiliating | punct |
| 46 | humiliating | humiliate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 unpleasant | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | subject | memories conj; long, thus property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recall | past · progressive | the two friends | the sweetest memories of memories's lives | constantly, forever property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | subject not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mingle | past · passive | with thoughts of experiences | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: with thought=Co-Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | experiences | unpleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | experiences not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | humiliate | gerund | experiences not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | think | experiences | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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