The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 29
“He is composing some new, sweet song,” said the motherly matron; and she refrained from disturbing him.
Who acts: maiden, some, motherly matron, Dame · What happens: compose, song, say, refrain, disturb · To what, where: maiden · 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 (maiden, some, motherly matron, Dame), 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 composing | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 composing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 composing | aux |
| 4 | composing | compose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 song | nsubj |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 new | punct |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 song | amod |
| 9 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 composing | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 composing | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 composing | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matron | det |
| 14 | motherly | motherly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 matron | amod |
| 15 | matron | matron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 refrained | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 refrained | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 refrained | nsubj |
| 19 | refrained | refrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 21 disturbing | mark |
| 21 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 refrained | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 disturbing | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose in a quote | present · progressive | maiden | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | song in a quote | some | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the motherly matron | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | refrain | past | Dame | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | disturb | gerund | Dame not said here | maiden | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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