The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 138
Through them a vast store of legends, wonder tales, songs, proverbs, tales of magic, etc., survived from generation to generation solely in the memories of the people.
Who acts: magic · What happens: wonder, survive, tell · To what, where: tales, vast store, generation · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (magic), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 5 store | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 store | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 store | det |
| 4 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 store | amod |
| 5 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wonder | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 legends | case |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 store | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 store | punct |
| 9 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wonder | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 songs | punct |
| 12 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tales | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proverbs | punct |
| 14 | proverbs | proverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tales | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tales | punct |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tales | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 magic | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tales | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 etc. | punct |
| 20 | etc. | etc. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Plur | 10 tales | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 survived | punct |
| 22 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wonder | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 generation | case |
| 24 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 survived | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 generation | case |
| 26 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 survived | obl |
| 27 | solely | solely | ADV | _ | 22 survived | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 memories | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 memories | det |
| 30 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 survived | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 memories | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | tales and songs and proverbs and tales of magic and etc. | a vast store memory of legends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | survive | past | from generation; to generation | in the memories of the people; solely property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in memory=Location | ||||
| 3 | tell | magic | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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