The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 29
All at once, however, his joy was dimmed; the memory of something unpleasant came into his mind.
Who acts: memory, Minstrel · What happens: dim, come, joy, mind · To what, where: All, mind
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (memory, Minstrel), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 dimmed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 All | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dimmed | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 dimmed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 joy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dimmed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dimmed | aux:pass |
| 10 | dimmed | dim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 memory | det |
| 13 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 something | case |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 memory | nmod |
| 16 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 something | amod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dimmed | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 mind | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mind | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dimmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dim | past · passive | All | Minstrel's joy nsubj:pass; however property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the memory of something | Minstrel's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | joy | Minstrel | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | mind | Minstrel | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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