The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 118
The Minstrel was cunning, and he answered: “In my own country we call it by another name.
Who acts: sing, we · What happens: be, answer, call · To what, where: Minstrel cunning, Sampo, own country · 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 (sing, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cunning | compound |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cunning | cop |
| 4 | cunning | cunning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nmod:desc |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 call | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 call | punct |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obl |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 call | nsubj |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 call | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 name | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Minstrel cunning | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | sing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | we | Sampo | my own country | by another name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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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