The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 106
Never has any one who came to my father’s palefaced country returned to home or friends.
Who acts: one, father · What happens: not have, come, paleface, return · To what, where: one, country
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, father), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 has | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 11 palefaced | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palefaced | nsubj |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | palefaced | paleface | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 palefaced | obj |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 country | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 friends | cc |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 home | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present | any one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | any one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | paleface | past | my father | country | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | return | participle | country not said here | to home or friends result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
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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