The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 145
This poem is remarkable for its great length and its tiresome, monotonous metre—qualities which discourage English readers from attempting its acquaintance.
Who acts: poem, qualities · What happens: be, discourage, attempt, acquaint · To what, where: English readers, acquaintance
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 (poem, qualities), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 poem | det |
| 2 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remarkable | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remarkable | cop |
| 4 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 length | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 length | nmod:poss |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 length | amod |
| 8 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remarkable | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 metre | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 metre | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 metre | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tiresome | punct |
| 13 | monotonous | monotonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 metre | amod |
| 14 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 length | conj |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 qualities | punct |
| 16 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 length | appos |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 discourage | nsubj |
| 18 | discourage | discourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 19 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 readers | amod |
| 20 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 discourage | obj |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 attempting | mark |
| 22 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 discourage | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 24 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 attempting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this poem | for poem's great length and poem's tiresome monotonous metre; remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discourage | present | qualities | English readers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reader=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | attempt | gerund | qualities not said here | poem's acquaintance | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | acquaint | poem | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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