The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Opening, sentence 10
The weaver of tales, who now relates these adventures to modern readers, has chosen to deviate widely from the methods of the ancient story-tellers.
Who acts: tales · What happens: relate, choose, deviate · To what, where: adventures, modern readers, weaver
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weaver | det |
| 2 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 tales | case |
| 4 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 weaver | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 relates | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 relates | nsubj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 relates | advmod |
| 8 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tales | acl:relcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 adventures | det |
| 10 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 relates | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 readers | case |
| 12 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 readers | amod |
| 13 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 adventures | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 weaver | punct |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 chosen | aux |
| 16 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 deviate | mark |
| 18 | deviate | deviate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 chosen | xcomp |
| 19 | widely | widely | ADV | _ | 18 deviate | advmod |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 methods | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 methods | det |
| 22 | methods | method | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deviate | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tellers | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tellers | det |
| 25 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tellers | amod |
| 26 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tellers | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 story | punct |
| 28 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 methods | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present | tales | this adventures | modern readers | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to reader=Recipient | ||
| 2 | choose | present · perfect · passive | the weaver of tales | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deviate | to-infinitive | from the methods of the ancient story tellers; widely property | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from method=Co-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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