The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 6
They who once enter that mysterious land may not hope to depart therefrom, neither must they send word home to their kindred and friends.
Who acts: lines, mysterious land · What happens: enter, not hope, depart, send · To what, where: word, kindred friends
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 (lines, mysterious land), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enter | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 enter | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 enter | advmod |
| 4 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 hope | mark |
| 6 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 land | amod |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hope | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 hope | advmod |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enter | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 depart | mark |
| 12 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hope | xcomp |
| 13 | therefrom | therefrom | ADV | _ | 12 depart | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 send | punct |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 send | cc:preconj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 send | aux |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 send | nsubj |
| 18 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hope | conj |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 send | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 send | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 friends | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friends | nmod:poss |
| 23 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 friends | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 friends | cc |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 send | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | present | lines = line | who nsubj; once property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hope | may | mysterious land | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | depart not said to happen | to-infinitive | mysterious land not said here | therefrom property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | must | lines = line | word | lines's kindred friends | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to friend=Destination |
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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