The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 116
Perhaps, also, you will tell us all about those strange bits of wisdom which you have acquired from the mighty keeper.”
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, acquire · To what, where: us, wisdom, mighty keeper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 also | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 bits | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 bits | case |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 bits | det |
| 12 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bits | amod |
| 13 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wisdom | case |
| 15 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bits | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 acquired | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 acquired | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 acquired | aux |
| 19 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wisdom | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 keeper | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 keeper | det |
| 22 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 keeper | amod |
| 23 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 acquired | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | you | us | about that strange bits of wisdom; perhaps property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about bit=Topic | |||
| 2 | acquire | present · perfect · passive | wisdom | the mighty keeper | you nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from keeper=Source |
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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