The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 57
For two, four—yes, six—long and dreary months he mourned, and his strength waned and he grew weak from sorrow.
Who acts: long months, strength, Beauty · What happens: mourn, wane, grow
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 (long months, strength, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 two | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 mourned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 four | punct |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 two | conj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 long | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 yes | punct |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 long | nummod |
| 9 | — | — | PUNCT | _ | 8 six | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 months | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dreary | cc |
| 12 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 long | conj |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mourned | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mourned | nsubj |
| 15 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 waned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 waned | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 strength | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waned | nsubj |
| 20 | waned | wane | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mourned | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 waned | conj |
| 24 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 sorrow | case |
| 26 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | long months | for two; Beauty nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for two=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | wane | past | Beauty's strength | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | Beauty | from sorrow; weak property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from sorrow=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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