The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 72
“O lovely keeper of Tuoni’s ferry, speak not so harshly to a lone, weary, traveller!
What happens: not speak · To what, where: lovely keeper · 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: 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 | _ | 4 keeper | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 keeper | discourse |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keeper | amod |
| 4 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ferry | case |
| 6 | Tuoni | Tuoni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ferry | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Tuoni | case |
| 8 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeper | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 speak | punct |
| 10 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 keeper | parataxis |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 speak | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 harshly | advmod |
| 13 | harshly | harshly | ADV | _ | 10 speak | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 traveller | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 traveller | det |
| 16 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 traveller | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weary | punct |
| 18 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lone | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 traveller | punct |
| 20 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 harshly | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | harshly property | vn talk-37.5 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/14/72/