The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 84
All the young men in the countries of the North have sought to win her.”
What happens: seek, win · To what, where: young men, maiden
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: 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 | 4 men | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 countries | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 countries | det |
| 7 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 men | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 North | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 North | det |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 countries | nmod |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sought | aux |
| 12 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 win | mark |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sought | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 win | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sought | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect · passive | all young men in the countries of the North | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | maiden | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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