The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 27
“The footpath to his kingdom is a magic highway,” said the earth man.
Who acts: footpath, magic highway · What happens: be, say · To what, where: magic highway · 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 (footpath, magic highway), 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 | _ | 10 highway | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 footpath | det |
| 3 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 highway | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 footpath | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 highway | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 highway | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 highway | amod |
| 10 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 highway | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 highway | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the footpath to man's kingdom | a magic highway | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a magic highway | the earth man nsubj | 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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