The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 44
His face betrayed both wonder and vexation, and he muttered to himself: “She is a witch and I know it.
Who acts: face, Tra · What happens: betray, mutter, be, know · To what, where: wonder, Minstrel, witch, vexation · 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 (face, Tra), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betrayed | nsubj |
| 3 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 wonder | det |
| 5 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betrayed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vexation | cc |
| 7 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wonder | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 muttered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 muttered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 muttered | nsubj |
| 11 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 betrayed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 muttered | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 witch | punct |
| 16 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 witch | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 witch | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 betrayed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 betrayed | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 betrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | past | Minstrel's face | both wonder and vexation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mutter speech: assert | past | face | Minstrel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Tra | a witch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | face | vexation | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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