The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 112
Then they lifted the Sampo from its place and bore it away, but whither I cannot tell.”
Who acts: men, I · What happens: lift, bear away, not tell · To what, where: Sampo, place, mountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sampo | det |
| 5 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 place | nmod:poss |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bore | cc |
| 10 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bore | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 bore | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 tell | cc |
| 15 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 tell | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tell | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 tell | advmod |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lifted | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | men = man | the Sampo | mountain's place | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme from place=Destination | ||
| 2 | bear away | past | men = man not said here | mountain | away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | can | I | whither property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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