The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 154
Note E, page 126.—The Minstrel’s journey to Tuonela is briefly related in the sixteenth rune of the “Kalevala.”
Who acts: you, journey, Minstrel · What happens: note, be, journey · To what, where: E, sixteenth rune
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, journey, Minstrel), 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 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Note | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 page | punct |
| 4 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 E | appos |
| 5 | 126 | 126 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 page | flat |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 related | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Minstrel | det |
| 9 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Minstrel | case |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 related | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Tuonela | case |
| 13 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 journey | nmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 related | cop |
| 15 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 16 related | advmod |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Note | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rune | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rune | det |
| 19 | sixteenth | sixteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rune | amod |
| 20 | rune | rune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 related | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Kalevala | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Kalevala | det |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Kalevala | punct |
| 24 | Kalevala | Kalevala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 rune | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Note | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | 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 | E | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent e=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Minstrel's journey to Tuonela | the sixteenth rune of the Kalevala | briefly, related property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | journey | the Minstrel | to Tuonela | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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