The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 117
And on the shores where they were drifted, wonderful trees sprang up, bearing delicious fruits and gorgeous flowers, such as the people of northern climes had never seen nor dreamed about.
Who acts: wonderful trees · What happens: drift, sprang up, bear, not see, dream · To what, where: islands, shores, delicious fruits
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 (wonderful trees), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 drifted | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 shores | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shores | det |
| 4 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drifted | obl |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 drifted | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 drifted | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drifted | aux:pass |
| 8 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprang | punct |
| 10 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trees | amod |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sprang | nsubj |
| 12 | sprang | sprang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drifted | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 sprang | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bearing | punct |
| 15 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 seen | advcl |
| 16 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fruits | amod |
| 17 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bearing | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flowers | cc |
| 19 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fruits | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 people | punct |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 people | case |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 such | fixed |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fruits | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 climes | case |
| 27 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 climes | amod |
| 28 | climes | clime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 people | nmod |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 seen | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 seen | advmod |
| 31 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 sprang | parataxis |
| 32 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 dreamed | cc |
| 33 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 seen | conj |
| 34 | about | about | ADV | _ | 33 dreamed | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | past · passive | islands = island | the shores | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on shore=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sprang up | present | wonderful trees | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | delicious fruits and gorgeous flowers and the people of northern climes | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not see | past · perfect | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | dream | participle | about property | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: 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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