The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 108
Great and powerful wizard though he was, the Minstrel felt himself helpless before this slender girl.
Who acts: Great wizard · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great wizard), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wizard | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 powerful | cc |
| 3 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Great | conj |
| 4 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj:outer |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 was | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 felt | obj |
| 13 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helpless | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Great wizard | the Minstrel nsubj; feel, helpless property | tree rules |
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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