The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 105
At length, when not another vestige could be found, the Minstrel with tired limbs went up to the misty summit of the headland, carrying the fragments with him.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: find, go up, carry · To what, where: vestige, length, fragments
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 (Minstrel), 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 | 17 went | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 found | mark |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 vestige | advmod |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 vestige | det |
| 7 | vestige | vestige | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 length | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Minstrel | det |
| 13 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 limbs | amod |
| 16 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 summit | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 summit | det |
| 21 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 summit | amod |
| 22 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 headland | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 headland | det |
| 25 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 summit | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 carrying | punct |
| 27 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fragments | det |
| 29 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 carrying | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 carrying | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could · passive | another vestige | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go up | past | the Minstrel | length | to the misty summit of the headland; tired limbs nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | the fragments | with treasure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=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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