The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 142
The soft fur robes, the skins of two great bears, blankets in plenty were put in their proper places; a jar of reindeer meat, a string of smoked herring, food for many days, were stowed beneath the seat; everything was done to speed the traveller on his way.
What happens: put, smoke, stow, do, speed · To what, where: soft fur robes, proper places, seat, everything, traveller, way
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 robes | det |
| 2 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 robes | amod |
| 3 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 robes | compound |
| 4 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 skins | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skins | det |
| 7 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 robes | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bears | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 bears | nummod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bears | amod |
| 11 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 skins | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blankets | punct |
| 13 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bears | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 plenty | case |
| 15 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bears | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux:pass |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 places | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 places | nmod:poss |
| 20 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 places | amod |
| 21 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 jar | punct |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 jar | det |
| 24 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 meat | case |
| 26 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 meat | compound |
| 27 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jar | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 string | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 string | det |
| 30 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jar | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 herring | case |
| 32 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 herring | amod |
| 33 | herring | herring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 string | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 food | punct |
| 35 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 jar | conj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 days | case |
| 37 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 days | amod |
| 38 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stowed | punct |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 stowed | aux:pass |
| 41 | stowed | stow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 put | conj |
| 42 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 44 seat | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 seat | det |
| 44 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stowed | obl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 done | punct |
| 46 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 48 done | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 done | aux:pass |
| 48 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 put | conj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 speed | mark |
| 50 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 done | advcl |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 traveller | det |
| 52 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 speed | obj |
| 53 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 way | case |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 way | nmod:poss |
| 55 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 speed | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the soft fur robes and the skins of two great bears in plenty and blankets | robes's proper places | day | a jar of reindeer meat and a string of smoked herring and food parataxis | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in place=Destination | ||
| 2 | smoke | participle | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stow | past · passive | the seat | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: beneath seat=Destination | |||||
| 4 | do | past · passive | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | speed | to-infinitive | the traveller | sledge's way | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent traveller=Theme on way=Trajectory |
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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