The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 19
He looked, and on the farther side he saw a gray castle and a long white shore, and he knew that it was Tuoni’s land—the land of silence and of mystery.
Who acts: E, shore · What happens: look, see, know, be · To what, where: gray castle, farther side, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (E, shore), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 side | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 12 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shore | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shore | amod |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shore | amod |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 castle | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 knew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 knew | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 land | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 land | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 land | cop |
| 26 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 land | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Tuoni | case |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knew | ccomp |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 land | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 land | det |
| 31 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 land | appos |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 silence | case |
| 33 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 land | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mystery | cc |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mystery | case |
| 36 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 silence | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | E | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | E | a gray castle and a long white shore | the farther side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | past | E | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | shore | Tuoni's land | Tuoni nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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