The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 40
The Minstrel, still singing and still reciting his magic spells, had already climbed upon the deck.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: sing, recite, spell, climb · To what, where: magic, deck
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), 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 | 11 spells | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 singing | punct |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 singing | advmod |
| 5 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Minstrel | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reciting | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 reciting | advmod |
| 8 | reciting | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 singing | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 magic | nmod:poss |
| 10 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reciting | obj |
| 11 | spells | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 climbed | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 climbed | aux |
| 14 | already | already | ADV | _ | 15 climbed | advmod |
| 15 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 spells | ccomp |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 deck | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deck | det |
| 18 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 climbed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | still | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | recite | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | Minstrel's magic | still | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magic=Theme | |||
| 3 | spell | present | the Minstrel | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | climb | past · perfect | the Minstrel not said here | the deck | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon deck=Trajectory |
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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