The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 139
It was not until about a century ago that any systematic effort was made to give this legendary lore a permanent form by putting it into writing.
Who acts: song, systematic effort · What happens: not be, make, give, put · To what, where: systematic effort, legendary lore, song, writing
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 (song, systematic effort), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ago | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ago | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ago | advmod |
| 4 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 ago | mark |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 century | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 century | det |
| 7 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 made | mark |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 effort | det |
| 11 | systematic | systematic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 effort | amod |
| 12 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux:pass |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ago | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 give | mark |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 lore | det |
| 18 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lore | amod |
| 19 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 form | det |
| 21 | permanent | permanent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 form | amod |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 give | obj |
| 23 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 24 putting | mark |
| 24 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 give | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 putting | obj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 writing | case |
| 27 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 putting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | song | century | ago property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past · passive | any systematic effort | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | any systematic effort not said here | this legendary lore | a permanent form obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lore=Recipient form=Theme | |||
| 4 | put | gerund | any systematic effort not said here | song | writing | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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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