The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 19

They talked daily of their strange adventures in Pohyola; and now, in the halo of long absence, the Frozen Land was remembered only as a land of spring showers and summer sunshine, and their days of sadness and gloom were forgotten in contemplation of the blessedness which they had felt in the presence of the Maid of Beauty.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: talk, remember, gloom, forget, feel, adventure · To what, where: Frozen Land, halo, contemplation, blessedness, presence, Pohyola

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 (Minstrel), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	daily	daily	ADV	_	2 talked	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 adventures	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 adventures	nmod:poss
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 adventures	amod
7	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talked	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Pohyola	case
9	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 adventures	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 remembered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 remembered	cc
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 remembered	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 now	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 halo	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 halo	det
16	halo	halo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remembered	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 absence	case
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 absence	amod
19	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 halo	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 halo	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Land	det
22	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Land	compound
23	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 remembered	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 remembered	aux:pass
25	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 forgotten	advcl
26	only	only	ADV	_	29 land	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 land	det
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remembered	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 showers	case
31	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 showers	compound
32	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 land	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sunshine	cc
34	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sunshine	compound
35	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 showers	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 days	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 days	cc
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 days	nmod:poss
39	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 remembered	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 sadness	case
41	sadness	sadness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 days	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gloom	cc
43	gloom	gloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 remembered	conj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 forgotten	aux:pass
45	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 talked	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 contemplation	case
47	contemplation	contemplation	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 forgotten	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 blessedness	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 blessedness	det
50	blessedness	blessedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 contemplation	nmod
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 felt	nsubj:pass
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 felt	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 felt	aux
54	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 blessedness	acl:relcl
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 presence	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 presence	det
57	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 felt	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 Maid	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Maid	det
60	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 presence	nmod
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 Beauty	case
62	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Maid	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	Minstrel				of Minstrel's strange adventures in Pohyola; daily property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remember	past · passive		the Frozen Land	the halo of long absence	now; day	as a land of spring showers and summer sunshine	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as land=Attribute
3	gloom	present						tree rules
4	forget	past · passive			contemplation of the blessedness			tree rules
5	feel	past · perfect · passive		the blessedness	the presence of the Maid of Beauty		Minstrel nsubj	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in presence=Location
6	adventure		Minstrel		Pohyola			nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place
7	contemplate			the blessedness				nom contemplation «act 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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 19