The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 121
“The Sampo,” she said, “is the mill of fortune which wise men, since the beginning of things, have sought to invent.
Who acts: Sampo · What happens: say, be, seek, invent · To what, where: mill, wise men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sampo), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sampo | det |
| 3 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sampo | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sampo | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mill | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mill | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 mill | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mill | det |
| 12 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fortune | case |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mill | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sought | obj |
| 16 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beginning | punct |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 21 beginning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 beginning | det |
| 21 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 things | case |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 things | punct |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sought | aux |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 mill | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 invent | mark |
| 28 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sought | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sampo | Mistress nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the mill | of fortune | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present · perfect · passive | wise men | the beginning | the mill obj; things nsubj:pass | tree rules | |||
| 4 | invent not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: 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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