The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 162
Finally, sudden changes occurred which completely reversed this order of the seasons.
Who acts: sudden changes · What happens: occur, reverse, order · To what, where: order, seasons
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 (sudden changes), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 occurred | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 changes | amod |
| 4 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occurred | nsubj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 reversed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 8 reversed | advmod |
| 8 | reversed | reverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 occurred | ccomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 order | det |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reversed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 seasons | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seasons | det |
| 13 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 order | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | sudden changes | finally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reverse | participle · passive | this order of the seasons | which nsubj:pass; completely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | order | the seasons | nom order «communication 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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