The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 132
“I thank you, mighty queen,” the Minstrel said politely, “but my errand in Tuonela permits neither eating nor drinking.
Who acts: Minstrel, errand · What happens: thank, say, permit, eat, drink · To what, where: mighty queen, you · 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 (Minstrel, errand), 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 | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | nsubj |
| 3 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 thank | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 queen | punct |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 queen | amod |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thank | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thank | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minstrel | det |
| 11 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 errand | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 errand | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 errand | cc |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 errand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 permits | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 Tuonela | case |
| 20 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 errand | nmod |
| 21 | permits | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 22 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 23 eating | cc:preconj |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 permits | advcl |
| 24 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 drinking | cc |
| 25 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 eating | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | the Minstrel = minstrel | mighty queen | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Minstrel | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | permit in a quote | present | my errand in Tuonela | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | gerund | my errand in Tuonela not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink in a quote | gerund | my errand in Tuonela not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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