The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 46
“Never did I think that Fate would carry me to the cold and misty shores of Pohyola, the Frozen Land; but it happened even so.
Who acts: Minstrel, Fate, it · What happens: not think, carry, happen · To what, where: Minstrel, cold shores
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 (Minstrel, Fate, it), 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 | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 think | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 7 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | aux |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 think | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 shores | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shores | det |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shores | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 misty | cc |
| 15 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cold | conj |
| 16 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Pohyola | case |
| 18 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 shores | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Land | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Land | det |
| 21 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Land | compound |
| 22 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Pohyola | appos |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 happened | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 happened | cc |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | parataxis |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 so | advmod |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 happened | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · do-support | the Minstrel = minstrel | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | would | Fate | the Minstrel = minstrel | the cold shores of Pohyola | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to shore=Destination | |||
| 3 | happen in a quote | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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