The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 89
With the tenth stroke the Wisdom Keeper quivered and turned his head and, in tones mightier than thunder, began to sing.
Who acts: Wisdom Keeper · What happens: quiver, turn, begin, sing · To what, where: head
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 (Wisdom Keeper), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 stroke | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stroke | det |
| 3 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stroke | amod |
| 4 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quivered | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Keeper | det |
| 6 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Keeper | compound |
| 7 | Keeper | Keeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 quivered | nsubj |
| 8 | quivered | quiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 quivered | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mightier | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tones | case |
| 16 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mightier | obl |
| 17 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 turned | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 thunder | case |
| 19 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mightier | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 quivered | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 sing | mark |
| 23 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 quivered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quiver | past | the Wisdom Keeper | with the tenth stroke | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the Wisdom Keeper not said here | Keeper's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Wisdom Keeper not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | the Wisdom Keeper not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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