The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 141

An interest in the subject being awakened, Dr. Elias Lönnrot undertook the task of collecting and putting into permanent form all that was best in the legendary literature of his countrymen.

Who acts: interest, that · What happens: awaken, undertake, put, be, task · To what, where: subject, task, legendary literature, permanent form, collecting

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 (interest, that), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 interest	det
2	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 undertook	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 subject	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 subject	det
5	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 interest	nmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 awakened	aux:pass
7	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 subject	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 interest	punct
9	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Elias	nmod:desc
10	Elias	Elias	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 undertook	nsubj
11	Lönnrot	Lönnrot	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Elias	flat
12	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 task	det
14	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 undertook	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 collecting	case
16	collecting	collecting	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 task	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 putting	cc
18	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 task	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 form	case
20	permanent	permanent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 form	amod
21	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 putting	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 best	det:predet
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 best	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 best	cop
25	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 undertook	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 literature	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 literature	det
28	legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 literature	amod
29	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 undertook	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 countrymen	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 countrymen	nmod:poss
32	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 literature	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 undertook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awaken	gerund · passive		the subject not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»
2	undertake	past	a interest in the subject	the task of collecting	the legendary literature of Elias's countrymen	Elias Dr. nsubj	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
3	put	gerund	a interest in the subject not said here		permanent form		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	that			well property	tree rules
5	task			collecting			nom task «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 141

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 141