The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 134
Then in a few words wisely spoken he told her plainly, truly, the object of his visit.
Who acts: morsel · What happens: speak, tell, visit · To what, where: few words, business · 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 (morsel), 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 | 7 spoken | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoken | obl |
| 6 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 7 spoken | advmod |
| 7 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoken | parataxis |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 9 told | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 object | punct |
| 13 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 16 object | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 truly | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 object | det |
| 16 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoken | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 visit | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 visit | nmod:poss |
| 19 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 object | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | a few words | then | the object of morsel's visit parataxis; wisely property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | morsel | business | plainly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | visit | morsel | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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