The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 123
For in the places wherein it rested and took root, noble men and women sprang up, scholars and statesmen and skilful workers in all kinds of metals, and these were destined to rule the world.
Who acts: cover, noble men · What happens: rest, take, spring up, destine, rule · To what, where: root, scholars, these, world
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 (cover, noble men), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 places | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 places | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 places | det |
| 4 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sprang | obl |
| 5 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 rested | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rested | nsubj |
| 7 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 places | acl:relcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rested | conj |
| 10 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 12 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sprang | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 women | cc |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 men | conj |
| 16 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 sprang | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scholars | punct |
| 19 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sprang | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 statesmen | cc |
| 21 | statesmen | statesman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scholars | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 workers | cc |
| 23 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 workers | amod |
| 24 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scholars | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 kinds | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 kinds | det |
| 27 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 workers | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 metals | case |
| 29 | metals | metal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kinds | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 destined | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 destined | cc |
| 32 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 destined | aux:pass |
| 34 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sprang | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 rule | mark |
| 36 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 destined | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rule | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | cover | wherein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | cover not said here | root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spring up | past | noble men and women | scholars and statesmen and skilful workers in all kinds of metals | for the places | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | destine | past · passive | these | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rule | to-infinitive | the world | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=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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