The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 161

Note G, page 321.—Old Persian books tell us that at an early period the climate of some distant northern countries was so mild that they enjoyed nine months of summer with only three months of winter.

Who acts: you, Old Persian books, climate, books, distant northern countries · What happens: note, tell, be, enjoy, acclimate · To what, where: G, us, early period · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Old Persian books, climate, books), 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	G	G	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Note	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 page	punct
4	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 G	conj
5	321	321	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 page	flat
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Note	punct
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 books	amod
9	Persian	persian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 books	amod
10	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Note	parataxis
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	iobj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 us	nmod:unmarked
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 period	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 period	det
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 period	amod
17	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mild	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 climate	det
19	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mild	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 countries	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 countries	det
22	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 countries	amod
23	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 countries	amod
24	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 climate	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mild	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 mild	advmod
27	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	ccomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 enjoyed	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 enjoyed	nsubj
30	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 mild	advcl
31	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 months	nummod
32	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 summer	nmod:unmarked
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 summer	case
34	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 enjoyed	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 months	case
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 three	advmod
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 months	nummod
38	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 enjoyed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 winter	case
40	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 months	nmod
41	.	.	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	G and page					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent g=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	Old Persian books		us				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	is	past	the climate of some distant northern countries			a early period		mild property	tree rules
4	enjoy	past	books = book				month; summer		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	acclimate		some distant northern countries						nom climate «state intransitive»: of=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 161