The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 120
And from them sprang numberless beautiful and priceless objects—pearls and precious stones, gold and silver, fine silks, strong castles, and kingly palaces.
What happens: spring · To what, where: numberless beautiful objects
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: 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 | _ | 4 sprang | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sprang | obl |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | numberless | numberless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 objects | amod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 objects | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 priceless | cc |
| 8 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beautiful | conj |
| 9 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | obj |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 pearls | punct |
| 11 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprang | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stones | cc |
| 13 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stones | amod |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pearls | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gold | punct |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pearls | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 silver | cc |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gold | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 silks | punct |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 silks | amod |
| 21 | silks | silk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pearls | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 castles | punct |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 castles | amod |
| 24 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pearls | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 palaces | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 palaces | cc |
| 27 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palaces | amod |
| 28 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pearls | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | numberless beautiful objects | from fragments = fragment; pearls and precious stones and gold and silver and fine silks and strong castles and kingly palaces obl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location object=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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