The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 79
He peered into the half open, cavernous mouth of Wipunen, and lo! on the tip of his tongue were the wisdom words of every people and clime.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: peer, be · To what, where: wisdom words, tip
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 peered | nsubj |
| 2 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 half | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 half | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 peered | obl |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 peered | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mouth | punct |
| 8 | cavernous | cavernous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Wipunen | case |
| 11 | Wipunen | Wipunen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mouth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 words | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 words | cc |
| 14 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 25 words | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 lo | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 tip | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tip | det |
| 18 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 words | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tongue | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tip | nmod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 words | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 words | det |
| 24 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 words | compound |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 peered | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 words | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 clime | cc |
| 30 | clime | clime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 people | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 peered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peer | past | Minstrel | into the half; open property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into half=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the wisdom words | the tip of Minstrel's tongue | of every people and clime | 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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