The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 143
He travelled to every part of Finland, lived with people of every condition, and listened to their recitals of stories and songs which they had learned from the lips of their ancestors.
Who acts: interest, recitals, people · What happens: travel, live, listen, learn, recite · To what, where: part, stories, lips
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, recitals, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 part | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 part | det |
| 5 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 travelled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Finland | case |
| 7 | Finland | Finland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 part | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 condition | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 condition | det |
| 14 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 listened | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 listened | cc |
| 17 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 recitals | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 recitals | nmod:poss |
| 20 | recitals | recital | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 listened | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 stories | case |
| 22 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recitals | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 songs | cc |
| 24 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stories | conj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 learned | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 learned | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 learned | aux |
| 28 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 stories | acl:relcl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 lips | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lips | det |
| 31 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 learned | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 ancestors | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lips | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | interest | every part of Finland | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to part=Destination | ||||
| 2 | live | past | interest not said here | with people of every condition | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location | ||||
| 3 | listen | past | to people's recitals of stories and songs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to recital=Theme | |||||
| 4 | learn | past · perfect | recitals = recital | stories and songs | the lips of recitals's ancestors | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Topic from lip=Source | |||
| 5 | recite | people | stories and songs | nom recital «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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