The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 105
Then in half-sad tones, as though in pity, she said, “You do not know what you ask, foolish hero.
Who acts: maiden, You · What happens: say, not know, ask · To what, where: sad tones, foolish hero · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, You), 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 | 14 said | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tones | case |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 sad | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 half | punct |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tones | amod |
| 6 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 9 | though | though | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pity | case |
| 11 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pity | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 17 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 ask | obj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | nsubj |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hero | punct |
| 25 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hero | amod |
| 26 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | maiden | sad tones | then | in pity; though property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner | ||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | foolish hero | what obj | tree rules |
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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