The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 45
“Never was there a more prosperous people than those of Pohyola.
What happens: not be
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: 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 | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 there | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 prosperous | advmod |
| 7 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 there | parataxis |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 people | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Pohyola | case |
| 12 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 those | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | a prosperous people than those of Pohyola parataxis; there property | tree rules |
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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