The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 35
Sharply, and in shrill, cutting tones, she answered the call of the Minstrel:
Who acts: eye · What happens: cut, answer, call · To what, where: tones, call, shrill, Minstrel · 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 (eye), 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 | Sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 answered | cc |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 shrill | case |
| 5 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 answered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cutting | punct |
| 7 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shrill | advcl |
| 8 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cutting | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrill | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 call | det |
| 13 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Minstrel | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Minstrel | det |
| 16 | Minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 call | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | eye not said here | tones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tone=Product | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | eye | the call of the Minstrel | shrill | sharply property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality | ||
| 3 | call | the Minstrel | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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