The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 49
Soon all his ancient courage came to him again, and the happy habits of by-gone days were resumed.
Who acts: ancient courage · What happens: come, resume · To what, where: strength, happy habits
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 (ancient courage), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 all | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 courage | det:predet |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 courage | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 courage | amod |
| 5 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 resumed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 resumed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 habits | det |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 habits | amod |
| 14 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 resumed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 by | punct |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 habits | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 resumed | aux:pass |
| 21 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | strength's ancient courage | strength | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | resume | past · passive | the happy habits of gone days | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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