The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 119
If you will describe it I will tell you what that name is and also some strange things which no other minstrel knows.”
Who acts: you, I, name, other minstrel · What happens: describe, tell, be, know · To what, where: Sampo, you, strange things · 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, I, name, other 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 describe | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 describe | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 describe | aux |
| 4 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 describe | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 name | det |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 what | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | cop |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 things | cc |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 things | advmod |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 things | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 things | amod |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 what | conj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 knows | obj |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 minstrel | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 minstrel | amod |
| 22 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knows | nsubj |
| 23 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 things | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe a condition, not said to happen | future | you | Sampo | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that name | some strange things conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | present | no other minstrel | some strange things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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