The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 18

Three score and ten days, three score and ten nights, were the measure of his journey; and at length he found himself on the shore of a mighty river, deep, dark, and sluggish.

Who acts: Three score, E · What happens: be, find, journey · To what, where: measure, E, length

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 (Three score, E), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 score	nummod
2	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 measure	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 days	cc
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 score	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 score	punct
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 score	nummod
8	score	score	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 score	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 nights	cc
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nights	nummod
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 score	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 score	punct
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 measure	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 measure	det
15	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 journey	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 journey	nmod:poss
18	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 measure	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 length	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 measure	parataxis
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 found	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 shore	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shore	det
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 river	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 river	det
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 river	amod
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shore	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 deep	punct
34	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 river	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dark	punct
36	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 deep	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 sluggish	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sluggish	cc
39	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 deep	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 measure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Three score and ten days and three score and ten nights	the measure		of E's journey	tree rules
2	find	past	E	E	length	on the shore of a mighty river	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at length=Asset
3	journey		E				nom journey «act 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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 18