The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 158
“Far away, on the world’s edge,” answered the Minstrel, “there is a land of silence and fear, the Land of Shades, the kingdom of Tuoni.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: edge, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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 | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 world | case |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 edge | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 edge | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Minstrel | det |
| 14 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 is | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 land | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 silence | case |
| 22 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 fear | cc |
| 24 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 silence | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Land | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Land | det |
| 27 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 silence | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Shades | case |
| 29 | Shades | Shade | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 Land | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 kingdom | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 kingdom | det |
| 32 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Shades | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Tuoni | case |
| 34 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 kingdom | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the world's edge | away property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the Minstrel | a land | of silence and fear | tree rules |
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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