The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 152
For never will your Maid of Beauty return from Tuonela to dwell in a body so base and worthless.”
What happens: dwell · To what, where: body
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 Maid | case |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 Maid | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 Maid | aux |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Maid | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 return | case |
| 7 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | compound |
| 8 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Maid | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Tuonela | case |
| 10 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 return | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dwell | mark |
| 12 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 return | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 body | det |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dwell | obl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 worthless | advmod |
| 17 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worthless | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 worthless | cc |
| 19 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 dwell | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maid | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Maid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | to-infinitive | a body | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Location |
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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