The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 94
Where were the Pohyolan warriors whom the sea had not claimed?
Who acts: Pohyolan warriors · What happens: be, not claim · To what, where: sea
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 (Pohyolan warriors), 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=Int | root | root |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 warriors | det |
| 4 | Pohyolan | Pohyolan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 warriors | compound |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 claimed | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 claimed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 claimed | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 claimed | advmod |
| 11 | claimed | claim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Pohyolan warriors | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not claim speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the sea | the Pohyolan warriors 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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