The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 5
Many are they who have gone thither—some by land, some by sea—yet none have returned to tell others of what they have learned.
Who acts: Many, lines · What happens: be, return, tell, learn · To what, where: none, others · 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 (Many, lines), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 some | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 gone | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 some | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 land | punct |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 land | nmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 some | nmod |
| 16 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 returned | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 returned | cc |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 returned | aux |
| 20 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gone | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 tell | mark |
| 22 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 returned | advcl |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 tell | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 what | case |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 others | nmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 learned | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 learned | aux |
| 28 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 what | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | Many | lines = line nsubj; who nsubj; go, thither property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | present · perfect · passive | none | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | learn | present · perfect | lines = line | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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