The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 104
But alas! all these pieces were small, and he searched in vain for any trace of the precious pictured cover.
Who acts: alas, treasure · What happens: be, search, picture · To what, where: vain
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alas, treasure), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 alas | cc |
| 2 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 small | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 alas | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pieces | det:predet |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 pieces | det |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 small | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 searched | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 searched | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 searched | nsubj |
| 12 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 searched | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 trace | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 trace | det |
| 17 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 searched | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cover | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cover | det |
| 20 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cover | amod |
| 21 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cover | amod |
| 22 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trace | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | alas | all pieces nsubj; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | search | past | treasure | vain | for any trace of the precious pictured cover | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for trace=Theme | |||
| 3 | picture | participle | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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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