The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 156
And for many a sad day the people of Wainola sought him in vain and then mourned him as dead.
Who acts: people · What happens: seek, mourn · To what, where: body, vain
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 (people), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sought | cc |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sought | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Wainola | case |
| 10 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 11 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sought | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sought | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mourned | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 mourned | advmod |
| 17 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sought | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mourned | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 dead | case |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mourned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | the people of Wainola | body | vain | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in vain=Location | ||
| 2 | mourn | past | the people of Wainola not said here | body | then | as dead | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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