The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 56
The beauty of life had departed and he longed to die—to meet the shades of his loved ones in the land of Tuonela.
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: depart, long, die, meet, love, shade · To what, where: beauty, shades, land, loved ones
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 (Beauty), 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 | 2 beauty | det |
| 2 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 departed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beauty | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 departed | aux |
| 6 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 longed | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 longed | nsubj |
| 9 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 departed | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 die | mark |
| 11 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 longed | xcomp |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meet | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 die | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shades | det |
| 16 | shades | shade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ones | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ones | nmod:poss |
| 19 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ones | amod |
| 20 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shades | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Tuonela | case |
| 25 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 land | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past · perfect · passive | the beauty of life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | long | past | Beauty | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | the shades of Beauty's loved ones | the land of Tuonela | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shade=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | shade | Beauty's loved ones | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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