The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 117
And do you, a minstrel and a wizard, ask what it is?”
Who acts: you, Sampo · What happens: do, ask, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Sampo), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ask | advcl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 do | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 minstrel | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 minstrel | det |
| 6 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 do | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wizard | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wizard | det |
| 9 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 minstrel | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 do | punct |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 ask | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 what | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | you not said here | you | a minstrel and a wizard obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | Sampo | tree rules |
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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