The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 42
Many heroes have gone unwittingly to Tuoni’s kingdom, but none have ever returned.
Who acts: Many heroes · What happens: go, return · To what, where: kingdom, none
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many heroes), 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 | 2 heroes | amod |
| 2 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | unwittingly | unwittingly | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 7 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tuoni | case |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 returned | cc |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 returned | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 returned | advmod |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gone | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | Many heroes | Tuoni's kingdom | unwittingly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | return | present · perfect · passive | none | ever | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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