The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 160
Some points of similarity are found in the story of Jason and Medea.
What happens: find, point · To what, where: points, story, similarity
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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 points | det |
| 2 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 similarity | case |
| 4 | similarity | similarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 points | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Jason | case |
| 11 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 story | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Medea | cc |
| 13 | Medea | Medea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Jason | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | some points of similarity | the story of Jason and Medea | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | point | similarity | nom point «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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