The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 94
Then from every leaf of the great tree there came a sound of music, a song of joy; and the acorn-bearer answered, “O master, I will gladly give him of my wood.
Who acts: acorn bearer, joy · What happens: come, answer, give, sing · To what, where: sound, leaf, master · 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 (acorn bearer, joy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 leaf | case |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 leaf | det |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 came | expl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sound | det |
| 12 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 music | case |
| 14 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sound | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 song | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 song | det |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 music | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 song | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 answered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 answered | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bearer | det |
| 23 | acorn | acorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bearer | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 acorn | punct |
| 25 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 answered | nsubj |
| 26 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 master | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 master | punct |
| 29 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 30 master | discourse |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 answered | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 34 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 35 give | advmod |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 answered | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 give | iobj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 wood | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wood | nmod:poss |
| 39 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a sound of music | every leaf of the great tree; there | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the acorn bearer | master | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | the acorn bearer = bearer | master | of my wood; gladly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | sing | joy | nom song «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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