The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 127
Small and without beauty it was, and there was little that it could do; but from it sprang such scant comforts and pleasures as the people of the Frozen Land have enjoyed until this day—warm underground huts, fishes for food, soft furs for clothing, and the reindeer for all kinds of uses.
Who acts: little, piece, people, kinds · What happens: be, do, spring, enjoy, use · To what, where: such scant comforts
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 (little, piece, people, kinds), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beauty | cc |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 beauty | case |
| 4 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Small | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Small | parataxis |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 was | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 little | acl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sprang | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 sprang | cc |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 sprang | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sprang | nsubj |
| 20 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Small | parataxis |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 comforts | amod |
| 22 | scant | scant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 comforts | amod |
| 23 | comforts | comfort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sprang | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pleasures | cc |
| 25 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 comforts | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 enjoyed | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Land | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Land | det |
| 31 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Land | compound |
| 32 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 people | nmod |
| 33 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 enjoyed | aux |
| 34 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 sprang | advcl |
| 35 | until | until | ADP | _ | 37 day | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 day | det |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 enjoyed | obl |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 huts | punct |
| 39 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 huts | amod |
| 40 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 huts | amod |
| 41 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 day | appos |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 fishes | punct |
| 43 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 huts | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 food | case |
| 45 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fishes | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 furs | punct |
| 47 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 furs | amod |
| 48 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 huts | conj |
| 49 | for | for | ADP | _ | 50 clothing | case |
| 50 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 furs | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 reindeer | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 reindeer | cc |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 reindeer | det |
| 54 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Small | obl |
| 55 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 kinds | case |
| 56 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 57 kinds | det |
| 57 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 reindeer | nmod |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 uses | case |
| 59 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 57 kinds | acl:relcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | little | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | could | piece | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | spring | past | piece | such scant comforts and pleasures | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location comfort=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | present · perfect | the people of the Frozen Land | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | use | present | all kinds not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: 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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