The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 128

“Never will the dead come to life again, never will my loved one return to me.

Who acts: my · What happens: come, love, return · To what, where: life

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (my), 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	_	6 come	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 will	advmod
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dead	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 will	obl:unmarked
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
9	again	again	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 return	advmod
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 return	aux
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 return	nmod:poss
14	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 return	amod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 return	nummod
16	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 me	case
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 return	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	future		life	again	my loved one return to me parataxis	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
2	love in a quote	participle					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	return in a quote		my			to me	nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 128