The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 23
“Truly do I know you,” answered the Minstrel; and, pulling in his oar, he dropped it with a crash upon the deck.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: know, answer, pull, drop · To what, where: you, oar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 know | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Minstrel | det |
| 11 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 dropped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dropped | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulling | punct |
| 15 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 dropped | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 oar | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 oar | nmod:poss |
| 18 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pulling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulling | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dropped | nsubj |
| 21 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dropped | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 crash | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 crash | det |
| 25 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dropped | obl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 deck | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 deck | det |
| 28 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 crash | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | the Minstrel = minstrel | you | truly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Minstrel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | Minstrel not said here | Minstrel's oar | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | Minstrel | oar | with a crash upon the deck | 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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