The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 106
“Never was there a greater magician than I,” returned the Minstrel boastfully.
Who acts: greater magician · What happens: not be, return · To what, where: Minstrel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greater magician), 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 | _ | 12 returned | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 there | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 returned | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 magician | amod |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 I | case |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 magician | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Minstrel | det |
| 14 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | obj |
| 15 | boastfully | boastfully | ADV | _ | 12 returned | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | a greater magician than I | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the Minstrel | boastfully property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=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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