The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 39

The Minstrel was old and cunning, and because he feared to tell the maiden the truth, he answered her with guileful words: “I am a poor woodsman from the Land of Heroes.

Who acts: Minstrel, Tuonela · What happens: be, fear, tell, answer · To what, where: maiden, poor woodsman, Land · 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, Tuonela), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Minstrel	det
2	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cunning	cc
6	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 feared	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 feared	nsubj
11	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 answered	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 tell	mark
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 feared	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feared	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 old	parataxis
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 answered	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 words	case
23	guileful	guileful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 answered	obl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 woodsman	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 woodsman	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 woodsman	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 woodsman	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 woodsman	det
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 woodsman	amod
31	woodsman	woodsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 words	appos
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 Land	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Land	det
34	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 woodsman	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Heroes	case
36	Heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Land	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Minstrel				old property	tree rules
2	be		the Minstrel not said here					tree rules
3	fear	past	Tuonela					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Tuonela not said here	the maiden			the truth obj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient truth=Topic
5	answer speech: assert	past	Tuonela		maiden		with guileful words	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
6	is a in a quote	present	Tuonela	a poor woodsman		the Land of Heroes		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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 39