The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 21

“Ah! ah! ah!” muttered the wild men.

Who acts: wild men · What happens: mutter

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild men), 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	_	9 muttered	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	9 muttered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
9	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 muttered	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	past	the wild men						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 21