The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 146
From the folk-lore tales of the runolainen and from portions of this long poem, the present weaver of tales has constructed the story of “The Sampo,” with such variations and connecting links as seemed most necessary to fit it to the tastes and requirements of modern readers.
What happens: construct, connect, seem, fit, require · To what, where: story, lore tales, links, poem, tastes, modern readers
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 6 tales | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tales | det |
| 3 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lore | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 folk | punct |
| 5 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tales | compound |
| 6 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 constructed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 runolainen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 runolainen | det |
| 9 | runolainen | runolainen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 constructed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 portions | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 portions | case |
| 12 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 runolainen | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 poem | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 poem | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 poem | amod |
| 16 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 portions | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weaver | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 weaver | det |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 weaver | amod |
| 20 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 poem | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tales | case |
| 22 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weaver | nmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 constructed | aux |
| 24 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 story | det |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 constructed | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Sampo | case |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Sampo | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sampo | det |
| 30 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 story | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 constructed | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 constructed | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 variations | case |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 variations | amod |
| 35 | variations | variation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 constructed | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 connecting | cc |
| 37 | connecting | connect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 constructed | conj |
| 38 | links | link | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 connecting | obj |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 seemed | mark |
| 40 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 connecting | advcl |
| 41 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 42 necessary | advmod |
| 42 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 seemed | xcomp |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 fit | mark |
| 44 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 necessary | advcl |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 fit | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 tastes | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 tastes | det |
| 48 | tastes | taste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 fit | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 requirements | cc |
| 50 | requirements | requirement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 tastes | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 readers | case |
| 52 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 readers | amod |
| 53 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 requirements | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct | present · perfect | the story of the Sampo | the lore tales | of the runolainen and portions of this long poem; with such variations | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent story=Result from tale=Material | |||
| 2 | connect | gerund | links | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Patient | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | necessary property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fit | to-infinitive | poem | to the tastes and requirements of modern readers goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to taste=Goal | ||||
| 5 | require | modern readers | nom requirement «cognition 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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