The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 140
The first person to attempt this was the Finnish poet, Zakris Topelius, who put together and published a small volume of traditions and folk tales.
Who acts: first person, Finnish poet · What happens: attempt, be, put together, publish · To what, where: this, Finnish poet, small volume
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 (first person, Finnish poet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 person | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 person | amod |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poet | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 attempt | mark |
| 5 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 person | acl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 attempt | obj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 poet | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poet | det |
| 9 | Finnish | finnish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 poet | amod |
| 10 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Zakris | punct |
| 12 | Zakris | Zakris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 poet | appos |
| 13 | Topelius | Topelius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Zakris | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 put | nsubj |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 poet | parataxis |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 published | cc |
| 19 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 volume | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 volume | amod |
| 22 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 published | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 traditions | case |
| 24 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 volume | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tales | cc |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tales | compound |
| 27 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 traditions | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 poet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | to-infinitive | the first person not said here | this | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the first person | the Finnish poet | Zakris appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put together | present | the Finnish poet | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | publish | past | the Finnish poet not said here | a small volume of traditions and folk tales | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volume=Result |
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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