The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 21
Years upon years went by, and at length one day Iron set out to visit his brothers.
Who acts: Years · What happens: go by, set out, visit · To what, where: length, brothers
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years), 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 | Years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Years | nmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 day | nummod |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 length | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 day | appos |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 visit | mark |
| 16 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 set | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 visit | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | Years upon years | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set out | past | Years upon years not said here | length one day | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | Years upon years not said here | Water's brothers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-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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