The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 21
Gradually, and by a process unknown to himself, Ilmarinen came to think of her as he thought of the sun and the stars and the wonderful sea, as something mysterious, sublime, incomprehensible, which he might worship from afar but never hope to possess or understand.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: come, think, worship, not hope, possess, understand · To what, where: afar
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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | Gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 7 unknown | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 unknown | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 unknown | cc |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 process | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 process | det |
| 6 | process | process | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unknown | obl |
| 7 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 himself | case |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 unknown | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 11 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unknown | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 think | mark |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sun | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sun | det |
| 22 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stars | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stars | det |
| 25 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sun | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sea | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 28 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sea | amod |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sun | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 something | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 something | case |
| 32 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 something | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sublime | punct |
| 35 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mysterious | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 incomprehensible | punct |
| 37 | incomprehensible | incomprehensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mysterious | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 worship | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 worship | nsubj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 worship | nsubj |
| 41 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 worship | aux |
| 42 | worship | worship | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 something | parataxis |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 afar | case |
| 44 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 worship | obl |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 hope | cc |
| 46 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 47 hope | advmod |
| 47 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 worship | conj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 possess | mark |
| 49 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 hope | xcomp |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 understand | cc |
| 51 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 possess | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unknown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Ilmarinen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | of Land | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Ilmarinen | of the sun and the stars and the wonderful sea; something ccomp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | worship | might | afar | which nsubj; Ilmarinen nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not hope | present | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | possess not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 7 | understand | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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