The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 57
Ten of the most beautiful were chosen to perform the work.
What happens: choose, perform · To what, where: beautiful, work, Ten
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. 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 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 chosen | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beautiful | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ten | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 perform | mark |
| 9 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chosen | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 work | det |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 perform | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | the beautiful | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | perform | to-infinitive | the work | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
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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