The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 33
Very earnestly did the Minstrel sing, and gradually his tones became sweeter and lower and more persuasive, like the murmuring of the waters on a peaceful summer morning.
Who acts: tones, Minstrel · What happens: do, become, intonate, murmur · To what, where: Minstrel sing, waters
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 (tones, 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 earnestly | advmod |
| 2 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sing | det |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | compound |
| 6 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 9 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 12 became | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lower | cc |
| 15 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sweeter | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 persuasive | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 persuasive | advmod |
| 18 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sweeter | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 murmuring | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 murmuring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 murmuring | det |
| 22 | murmuring | murmuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 waters | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 waters | det |
| 25 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 murmuring | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 morning | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 morning | det |
| 28 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 morning | amod |
| 29 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 morning | compound |
| 30 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 waters | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Minstrel sing | earnestly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Minstrel's tones | like the murmuring of the waters on a peaceful summer morning; gradually, sweet property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | intonate | Minstrel | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | murmur | the waters on a peaceful summer morning | nom murmuring «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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