The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 114
“Not only three words have I learned, but a hundred; and a thousand wonderful secrets do I know—secrets which the master of knowledge whispered in my ear.”
Who acts: thousand wonderful secrets, secrets · What happens: learn, know, master, whisper · To what, where: three words, secrets, knowledge, ear
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand wonderful secrets, secrets), 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 | _ | 8 learned | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 three | advmod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 three | advmod |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 words | nummod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 learned | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 learned | nsubj |
| 8 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hundred | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hundred | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 learned | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 secrets | det |
| 16 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 secrets | nummod |
| 17 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 secrets | amod |
| 18 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learned | conj |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 secrets | punct |
| 23 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 know | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 master | nsubj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 master | det |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 secrets | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 knowledge | case |
| 28 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 master | nmod |
| 29 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 knowledge | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 ear | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 ear | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 whispered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 secrets | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn in a quote | present · perfect · passive | three words | a hundred obl; I nsubj | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | a thousand wonderful secrets | secrets and the master | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | master in a quote | secrets and the master | of knowledge | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | participle | knowledge not said here | my ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
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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