The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 29

Word came to us that you had perished, that you had gone to dwell in Tuonela; and when this great blight of famine and sorrow came upon the land, we were fain to believe that it was indeed so.

Who acts: Word, you, great blight, we · What happens: come, perish, go, dwell, be, believe · To what, where: us, you, Tuonela, land, famine

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Word, you, great blight, we), 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	Word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 us	case
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 came	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 perished	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 perished	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 perished	aux
8	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 perished	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 dwell	mark
15	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 gone	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 Tuonela	case
17	Tuonela	Tuonela	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 dwell	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 came	advmod
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 blight	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blight	amod
23	blight	blight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 famine	case
25	famine	famine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blight	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sorrow	cc
27	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blight	conj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 land	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 land	det
31	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fain	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 fain	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fain	cop
35	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 came	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 believe	mark
37	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 fain	csubj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 indeed	mark
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 indeed	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 indeed	cop
41	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	37 believe	ccomp
42	so	so	ADV	_	41 indeed	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Word		us			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location
2	perish	past · perfect · passive		you				tree rules
3	go	past · perfect	you					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dwell	to-infinitive	you not said here			Tuonela		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tuonela=Location
5	come	past	this great blight of famine and sorrow			the land		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Location
6	is	past	we				fain property	tree rules
7	believe	to-infinitive						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past	Word				indeed property	tree rules
9	blight			famine				nom blight «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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 29