The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 34
She was the daughter of Tuoni, and to her belonged the duty of keeping the ferry whereby the shades of mortals were carried to her father’s kingdom.
Who acts: eye, duty · What happens: be, belong, keep, carry, shade · To what, where: daughter, duty, eye, ferry, shades, kingdom
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 (eye, duty), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daughter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Tuoni | case |
| 6 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 belonged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 belonged | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 belonged | obl |
| 11 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daughter | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 duty | det |
| 13 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 belonged | obj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 keeping | mark |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 duty | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ferry | det |
| 17 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obj |
| 18 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 carried | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shades | det |
| 20 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 mortals | case |
| 22 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 shades | nmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 carried | aux:pass |
| 24 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 keeping | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 father | case |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | eye | the daughter | of Tuoni | tree rules | |||
| 2 | belong | past | eye not said here | the duty | eye | tree rules | |||
| 3 | keep | gerund | the duty not said here | the ferry | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ferry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | past · passive | the shades of mortals | eye's father's kingdom | whereby property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to kingdom=Destination | |||
| 5 | shade | mortals | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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