The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 43
I am going on a journey to find some lost words that are very necessary to a minstrel.
Who acts: I, lost words · What happens: go, find, lose, be · To what, where: journey, lost words
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 (I, lost words), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 journey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 journey | det |
| 6 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | advcl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 words | det |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 necessary | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 necessary | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 necessary | advmod |
| 15 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 minstrel | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 minstrel | det |
| 18 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 necessary | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | a journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | some lost words | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | some lost words | to a minstrel; necessary property | tree rules |
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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