The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 27
Long did he ponder, and many were the thoughts that came into his old, experienced mind.
Who acts: maiden, many thoughts · What happens: ponder, be, come, mind · To what, where: many thoughts, old experienced mind
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 (maiden, many thoughts), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ponder | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ponder | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ponder | nsubj |
| 4 | ponder | ponder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thoughts | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thoughts | cc |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thoughts | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thoughts | det |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ponder | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thoughts | acl:relcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 mind | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mind | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 17 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mind | amod |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ponder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past · do-support | maiden | long property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the many thoughts | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the many thoughts | maiden's old experienced mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | mind | maiden | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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