The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 92
Where were the heroes who had survived the great struggle?
What happens: survive · To what, where: heroes
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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 survived | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 survived | aux:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heroes | det |
| 4 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 survived | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 survived | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 survived | aux |
| 7 | survived | survive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 struggle | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 struggle | amod |
| 10 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 survived | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 survived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | past · perfect · passive | the heroes | who nsubj; the great struggle obj | 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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