The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 28
“Well,” said the maiden, and she laughed while speaking, “memories are sometimes short, and even a minstrel may forget.
Who acts: hero, memories, minstrel · What happens: say, laugh, speak, be, forget · To what, where: maiden · 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 (hero, memories, 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laughed | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laughed | nsubj |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 speaking | mark |
| 13 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 laughed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 short | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 short | punct |
| 16 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 short | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 short | cop |
| 18 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 short | advmod |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 speaking | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 forget | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 forget | cc |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 minstrel | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 minstrel | det |
| 24 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 forget | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 forget | aux |
| 26 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 laughed | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past | hero | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | hero not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | memories | short, sometimes property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | forget in a quote | may | a minstrel | 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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