The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 100
He learned not only the three wisdom words which he had sought so zealously, but a thousand others of rare beauty and splendid power.
Who acts: man · What happens: learn, seek · To what, where: three wisdom words
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 learned | nsubj |
| 2 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 words | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 words | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 words | det |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 words | nummod |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | compound |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learned | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sought | aux |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 words | acl:relcl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 zealously | advmod |
| 14 | zealously | zealously | ADV | _ | 12 sought | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 others | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 others | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thousand | det |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 others | nummod |
| 19 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learned | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 beauty | case |
| 21 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beauty | amod |
| 22 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 others | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 power | cc |
| 24 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 power | amod |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 beauty | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | man | the three wisdom words | thousand others of rare beauty and splendid power obl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | seek | past · perfect · passive | the three wisdom words | man nsubj; zealously property | vn hunt-35.1 «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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