The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 91
He sang of the heroes and the wise men of ancient days; he sang of youth and age, of good and evil, of life and death.
Who acts: Keeper · What happens: sing
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 heroes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heroes | det |
| 5 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sang | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 men | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heroes | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 days | case |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 men | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sang | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sang | nsubj |
| 15 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 youth | case |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sang | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 age | cc |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 youth | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 life | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 evil | cc |
| 24 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 good | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 life | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sang | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 death | cc |
| 29 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 life | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Keeper | of the heroes and the wise men of ancient days | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | Keeper | of youth and age; of good life and death | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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