The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 2
The brief summer waned, and the long winter came with its sleet and snow and furious storms; but through all the weather changes and the varying fortunes of the year, the mutual devotion of the two heroes remained steadfast.
Who acts: brief summer, long winter, varying fortunes, affection · What happens: wane, come, change, vary, remain, sleet · To what, where: weather, two heroes
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 (brief summer, long winter, varying fortunes, affection), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summer | det |
| 2 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 summer | amod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waned | nsubj |
| 4 | waned | wane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 winter | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 winter | amod |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waned | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sleet | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleet | sleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 snow | cc |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sleet | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 storms | cc |
| 17 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 storms | amod |
| 18 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sleet | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 changes | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 changes | cc |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 weather | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 weather | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 weather | det |
| 24 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changes | obl |
| 25 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waned | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 remained | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fortunes | det |
| 28 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 fortunes | amod |
| 29 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 remained | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 year | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 year | det |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fortunes | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 devotion | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 devotion | det |
| 35 | mutual | mutual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 devotion | amod |
| 36 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fortunes | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 heroes | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 heroes | det |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 heroes | nummod |
| 40 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 devotion | nmod |
| 41 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 changes | conj |
| 42 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 remained | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wane | past | the brief summer | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the long winter | with affection's sleet and snow and furious storms | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | present | all weather | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | vary | gerund | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | remain | past | the varying fortunes of the year and the mutual devotion of the two heroes | steadfast property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sleet | affection | nom sleet «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | devote | the two heroes | nom devotion «feeling 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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