The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 18
“But he is very wise; he possesses many powerful runes; he is master of many magic spells,” said the queen.
Who acts: man, queen · What happens: be, possess, say · To what, where: many powerful runes, master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, queen), 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 | _ | 6 wise | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 wise | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wise | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wise | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 wise | advmod |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 possesses | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 possesses | nsubj |
| 9 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wise | parataxis |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 runes | amod |
| 11 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 runes | amod |
| 12 | runes | rune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 possesses | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 master | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 master | cop |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 spells | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spells | amod |
| 19 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spells | amod |
| 20 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spells | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 spells | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 possesses | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | man | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | possess in a quote | present | man | many powerful runes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | man | master | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | of many magic spells | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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