The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 16
“O friend and gentle helper,” answered Wainamoinen, “I grieve for the lack of three words with which to finish my magic vessel.
Who acts: friend · What happens: answer, grieve, finish, lack · To what, where: Wainamoinen, magic vessel, three words · 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 (friend), 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 | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 friend | discourse |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 helper | cc |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 helper | amod |
| 6 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grieve | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 grieve | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 grieve | nsubj |
| 14 | grieve | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 lack | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lack | det |
| 17 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grieve | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 words | case |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 words | nummod |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lack | nmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 finish | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 finish | mark |
| 24 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 words | acl:relcl |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 26 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 vessel | amod |
| 27 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 finish | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | friend and gentle helper | Wainamoinen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wainamoinen=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grieve in a quote | present | friend and gentle helper = friend | for the lack of three words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | finish in a quote | to-infinitive | friend and gentle helper = friend not said here | my magic vessel | with three words | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector vessel=Eventuality with which=Subeventuality | |||
| 4 | lack in a quote | three words | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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