The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 116
Minstrels from the earliest times have sung of its power, and all the wizards of the North have tried their spells, hoping to make something equally precious and potent.
Who acts: wizards · What happens: sing, try, hope, make, spell · To what, where: Minstrels, wizards, something
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 (wizards), 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 | Minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 times | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 times | det |
| 4 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 times | amod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Minstrels | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sung | aux |
| 7 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 power | nmod:poss |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tried | cc |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 wizards | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wizards | det |
| 15 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 North | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 North | det |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wizards | nmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | aux |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sung | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 spells | nmod:poss |
| 22 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tried | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hoping | punct |
| 24 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 tried | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hoping | xcomp |
| 27 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 29 precious | advmod |
| 29 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 something | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 potent | cc |
| 31 | potent | potent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 precious | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present · perfect · passive | Minstrels from the earliest times | of Sampo's power | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | present · perfect · passive | all wizards of the North | wizards's spells obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer spell=Result | ||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | something | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset something=Product | |||||
| 5 | spell | wizards = wizard | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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