The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 135
“Tell me, Ilmarinen,” said the Minstrel, “did you perform my errand?
Who acts: Minstrel, you · What happens: tell, say, perform · To what, where: Ilmarinen, Minstrel, errand · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, you), 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 | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ilmarinen | punct |
| 5 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perform | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 perform | punct |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 perform | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 perform | nsubj |
| 15 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 errand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perform | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Ilmarinen | the Minstrel = minstrel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Minstrel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | perform in a quote | past · do-support | you | my errand | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=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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