The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 78

“Perhaps not,” answered the Minstrel, growing somewhat ashamed; “perhaps I am going after larger game.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: answer, grow, go · 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	_	6 answered	punct
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	6 answered	advmod
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Perhaps	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Perhaps	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Minstrel	det
8	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 growing	punct
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	conj
11	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	12 ashamed	advmod
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 growing	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	advcl
19	after	after	ADP	_	21 game	case
20	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 game	amod
21	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Minstrel		perhaps property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow	gerund	the Minstrel not said here		ashamed property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	the Minstrel = minstrel	after larger game	perhaps property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 78

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 78