The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 137
“Truly there are magic words in plenty stored up in Tuoni’s treasure houses; but they are neither sold nor lent nor yet given away.
What happens: be, store up, sell, lend, give away · To what, where: magic words, plenty, treasure houses, poison
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 are | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 are | expl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | cop |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 plenty | case |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | nmod |
| 9 | stored | store | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 plenty | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 stored | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 houses | case |
| 12 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 houses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Tuoni | case |
| 14 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 houses | compound |
| 15 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stored | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sold | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 sold | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sold | aux:pass |
| 20 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 21 sold | advmod |
| 21 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | appos |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 lent | cc |
| 23 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sold | conj |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 given | cc |
| 25 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 26 given | advmod |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sold | conj |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 given | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | magic words | plenty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | store up in a quote | participle | plenty not said here | Tuoni's treasure houses | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | sell in a quote | present · passive | poison | neither property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lend in a quote | participle | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | give away in a quote | participle | yet | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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