The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 40
“I was here at the break of day, and not a minute have I been idle since.
Who acts: gallant Minstrel, minute · What happens: be, have, break · To what, where: break, day
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 (gallant Minstrel, minute), 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 | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 break | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 break | det |
| 7 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 here | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 break | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 minute | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 minute | det |
| 14 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | parataxis |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 idle | nsubj |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 idle | cop |
| 18 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 have | xcomp |
| 19 | since | since | ADV | _ | 18 idle | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the gallant Minstrel = minstrel | the break of day | here property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | a minute | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | participle | the gallant Minstrel = minstrel | idle, since property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break in a quote | day | nom break «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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