The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 16
“Now, sing to us your newest song, sweetest of minstrels,” the younger hero would say as they sat together beside the evening fire.
Who acts: you, younger hero, heroes, your · What happens: sing, say, sit · To what, where: newest song, us, evening fire · 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 (you, younger hero, heroes, your), 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 | _ | 4 sing | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 us | case |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sing | obl |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 song | nmod:poss |
| 8 | newest | new | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 song | amod |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sweetest | punct |
| 11 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 sing | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 minstrels | case |
| 13 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 say | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 minstrels | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 minstrels | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hero | det |
| 17 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 hero | amod |
| 18 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 say | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sweetest | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 sat | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | ccomp |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 sat | advmod |
| 25 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 28 fire | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fire | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fire | compound |
| 28 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sat | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your newest song | us | now | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to we=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | would | the younger hero | of minstrels | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sit | past | heroes = hero | the evening fire | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside fire=Location | |||
| 4 | sing in a quote | your | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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