The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 4
Very early one morning, the Minstrel went out secretly to the place where he had sought to build his magic boat.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: go out, seek, build · To what, where: magic boat
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 (Minstrel), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 early | advmod |
| 2 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Minstrel | det |
| 7 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 13 place | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sought | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sought | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sought | aux |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 build | mark |
| 19 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sought | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 boat | nmod:poss |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 boat | amod |
| 22 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 build | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Minstrel | morning | to the place; early property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | seek | past · perfect | Minstrel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | Minstrel not said here | Minstrel's magic boat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boat=Product |
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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