The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 76
The prince of minstrels, Wainamoinen, has sent me to find some for the magic vessel he is building.”
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: send, find, build · To what, where: me, some, magic vessel
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 (Wainamoinen), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Wainamoinen | nmod:desc |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 minstrels | case |
| 4 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prince | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prince | punct |
| 6 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wainamoinen | punct |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 find | mark |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 vessel | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vessel | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 vessel | amod |
| 17 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 find | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 building | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 building | aux |
| 20 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect | Wainamoinen the prince of minstrels | me | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen the prince of minstrels not said here | some | for the magic vessel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent some=Theme for vessel=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | build | present · progressive | Wainamoinen | the magic vessel not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Product |
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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