The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 103
I have found what I desired, I have received priceless gifts of which I never dreamed.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, desire, receive, not dream · To what, where: priceless gifts
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 desired | nsubj |
| 6 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 received | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 received | aux |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 found | advcl |
| 11 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gifts | amod |
| 12 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 dreamed | obl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 dreamed | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 dreamed | advmod |
| 17 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gifts | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · perfect | I | what obj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | desire | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | receive | present · perfect | I | priceless gifts | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not dream | past | I | of priceless gifts | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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