The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 144
These he committed to writing, and from them he constructed a single poem which he called “Kalevala.”
Who acts: These, interest · What happens: commit, construct, call · To what, where: writing, single poem · 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 (These, interest), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 committed | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 committed | nsubj |
| 3 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 writing | case |
| 5 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 committed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 constructed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 constructed | cc |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 constructed | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 constructed | nsubj |
| 11 | constructed | construct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 committed | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 poem | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 poem | amod |
| 14 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 constructed | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 called | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 called | nsubj |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 poem | acl:relcl |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kalevala | punct |
| 19 | Kalevala | Kalevala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 Kalevala | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past | These | writing | interest nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to writing=Destination | |||
| 2 | construct | past | interest | a single poem | from recitals = recital | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent poem=Result from they=Material | |||
| 3 | call | past | interest | a single poem | Kalevala xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
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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