The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 20
The Minstrel looked at his finished work and was pleased—but he was not yet satisfied.
Who acts: Minstrel, sea · What happens: look, be, not be, work
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, sea), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 work | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | finished | finished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pleased | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 satisfied | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 satisfied | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 satisfied | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 satisfied | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 satisfied | advmod |
| 16 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 satisfied | advmod |
| 17 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Minstrel | at sea's finished work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at work=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Minstrel not said here | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | sea | yet | satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | work | sea | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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