The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 147
Note B, page 2.—The Frozen Land may have been identical with modern Lapland.
Who acts: you, Frozen Land · What happens: note, be · To what, where: B
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 (you, Frozen Land), 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 | Note | note | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Note | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 page | punct |
| 4 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 B | appos |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 page | flat |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 identical | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Land | det |
| 9 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | compound |
| 10 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 identical | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 identical | aux |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 identical | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 identical | cop |
| 14 | identical | identical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Note | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Lapland | case |
| 16 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Lapland | amod |
| 17 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 identical | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | note | imperative | you not said here | B | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent b=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | may · perfect | the Frozen Land | with modern Lapland; identical property | tree rules |
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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