The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 161
The three magic words that I desire are hidden there—the raven, Tuoni’s bird, has reminded me of it by his croaking.”
Who acts: I, Tuoni · What happens: desire, hide, remind, croak · To what, where: three magic words, raven, me
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 (I, Tuoni), 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 | 4 words | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 words | nummod |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 desire | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 desire | nsubj |
| 7 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hidden | aux:pass |
| 9 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 hidden | advmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 raven | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 raven | det |
| 13 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hidden | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bird | punct |
| 15 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bird | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Tuoni | case |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raven | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reminded | punct |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reminded | aux |
| 20 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 raven | acl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 reminded | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reminded | obl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 croaking | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 croaking | nmod:poss |
| 26 | croaking | croaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reminded | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hidden | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | the three magic words | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | present · passive | the three magic words | there | the raven and Tuoni's bird obl | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | remind speech: other | present · perfect | the raven and Tuoni's bird not said here | me | of raven; by Tuoni's croaking | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of it=Topic | |||
| 4 | croak | Tuoni | nom croaking «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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