The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 93
At length he changed his theme and sang of the grandeur and glory of life, of things mighty and things lowly, and of the great hereafter beyond the silent river.
Who acts: wonder, life · What happens: change, sing, glory · To what, where: theme, length
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 (wonder, life), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 theme | nmod:poss |
| 6 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sang | cc |
| 8 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 grandeur | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grandeur | det |
| 11 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sang | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glory | cc |
| 13 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grandeur | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glory | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mighty | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 things | case |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mighty | obl |
| 19 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sang | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 things | cc |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 mighty | conj |
| 22 | lowly | lowly | ADV | _ | 19 mighty | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hereafter | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hereafter | cc |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 hereafter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hereafter | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hereafter | amod |
| 28 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 29 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 32 river | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 river | det |
| 31 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 river | amod |
| 32 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hereafter | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | wonder | wonder's theme | length | of the great hereafter beyond the silent river | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theme=Patient | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | wonder not said here | of the grandeur and glory of life | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glory | life | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent |
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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