The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 35
“You were gone so long that we gave you up as lost.
Who acts: we · What happens: go, give up, lose · To what, where: You
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gone | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 gave | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 gave | iobj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 gave | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gave | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past · passive | You | long property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give up in a quote | past | we | you | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Source | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | participle | we not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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