The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 41
“We have heard strange stories in our country concerning the magic Sampo and the great changes it has wrought in Pohyola.
Who acts: We, great · What happens: hear, concern, change, wrought · To what, where: strange stories, country, Minstrel, Pohyola · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, great), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stories | amod |
| 6 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 10 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Sampo | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 magic | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Sampo | compound |
| 13 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 changes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 great | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 changes | nsubj |
| 17 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Sampo | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wrought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wrought | aux |
| 20 | wrought | wrought | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 changes | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Pohyola | case |
| 22 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wrought | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | We | strange stories | our country | concern magic Sampo | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | concern in a quote | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | change in a quote | present | the great | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | wrought in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Minstrel | Pohyola | 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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