The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 128
With great wonder and thankfulness Wainamoinen saw these marvellous transformations—these changes by which the Sampo enriched and blessed not only his own land, but many an undiscovered and far-distant shore.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, Sampo, many · What happens: see, enrich, bless, shore · To what, where: marvellous transformations, own land
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 (Wainamoinen, Sampo, many), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 wonder | case |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wonder | amod |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thankfulness | cc |
| 5 | thankfulness | thankfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wonder | conj |
| 6 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 transformations | det |
| 9 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 transformations | amod |
| 10 | transformations | transformation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 changes | punct |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 changes | det |
| 13 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 transformations | appos |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 enriched | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sampo | det |
| 17 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 enriched | nsubj |
| 18 | enriched | enrich | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 changes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 blessed | cc |
| 20 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enriched | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 land | advmod |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 land | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 land | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 land | amod |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blessed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 shore | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 shore | cc |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 shore | nsubj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 shore | det |
| 30 | undiscovered | undiscovered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 shore | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 distant | cc |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 distant | advmod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 far | punct |
| 34 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 undiscovered | conj |
| 35 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Wainamoinen | this marvellous transformations | with great wonder and thankfulness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer transformation=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | enrich | past | the Sampo | by this changes | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bless | past | the Sampo not said here | Wainamoinen's own land | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shore | many | tree rules |
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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