The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 126
And the tiny, rough-cornered piece, which with her last strength the baffled Mistress had carried with her only finger back to her home land—what became of that?
Who acts: home land · What happens: corner, baffle, carry, become · To what, where: baffled Mistress, tiny rough cornered piece
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 (home land), 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 piece | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tiny | punct |
| 5 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 rough | punct |
| 7 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carried | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 strength | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 strength | amod |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mistress | det |
| 16 | baffled | baffle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Mistress | amod |
| 17 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | aux |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 piece | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obl |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 finger | advmod |
| 23 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 land | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 land | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 land | nmod:poss |
| 27 | home | home | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 land | amod |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 became | punct |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 became | nsubj |
| 31 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 land | acl:relcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 that | case |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 became | obl |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | corner | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | baffle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | carry | past · perfect · passive | the baffled Mistress | with Woman's last strength; with Woman; to Mistress's home land; finger obl; the tiny rough cornered piece obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Value | ||||
| 4 | become | past | Mistress's home land | of Mistress's home land | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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