The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 4
And the Minstrel also toiled, composing new songs of love and conflict, retelling old tales of mystery and magic, and studying to discover the secrets of nature and of life.
Who acts: Minstrel, love, mystery · What happens: toil, compose, retell, study, discover, sing · To what, where: new songs, old tales, secrets · 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, love, mystery), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 toiled | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minstrel | det |
| 3 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 toiled | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 toiled | advmod |
| 5 | toiled | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 composing | punct |
| 7 | composing | compose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 toiled | advcl |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 songs | amod |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 composing | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 love | case |
| 11 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 songs | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 conflict | cc |
| 13 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 love | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 retelling | punct |
| 15 | retelling | retell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 composing | conj |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tales | amod |
| 17 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 retelling | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mystery | case |
| 19 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tales | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 magic | cc |
| 21 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mystery | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 studying | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 studying | cc |
| 24 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 toiled | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 discover | mark |
| 26 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 studying | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 secrets | det |
| 28 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 discover | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 nature | case |
| 30 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 secrets | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 life | cc |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 life | case |
| 33 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 nature | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 toiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | past | the Minstrel | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | compose | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | new songs of love and conflict | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Result | ||||
| 3 | retell | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | old tales of mystery and magic | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | study | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | discover | to-infinitive | the Minstrel not said here | the secrets of nature and life | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | ||||
| 6 | sing | love and conflict | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | tell | mystery and magic | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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