The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 33
“I went to the far North Land, to Pohyola’s shores, because the voice of my dear lost Maid of Beauty seemed to call me thither.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, voice, Maid · What happens: go, lose, seem, call · To what, where: far North Land, Ilmarinen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ilmarinen, voice, Maid), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Land | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Land | amod |
| 7 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Land | compound |
| 8 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shores | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 shores | case |
| 11 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shores | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Pohyola | case |
| 13 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 lost | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dear | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dear | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | nmod |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Beauty | case |
| 24 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Maid | nmod |
| 25 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 call | mark |
| 27 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 call | obj |
| 29 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 27 call | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Ilmarinen | the far North Land | to Pohyola's shores | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location to shore=Destination | |||
| 2 | lose in a quote | past | the voice of my dear | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | past | Maid of Beauty | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | call in a quote | to-infinitive | Maid of Beauty not said here | Ilmarinen | thither property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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