The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 58
“Now, friend and fellow of the sea,” said the gray woman, “tell me your name.
Who acts: friend, gray woman, your · What happens: say, tell, name · To what, where: name, friend · 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 (friend, gray woman, your), 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 | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 friend | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fellow | cc |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fellow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | friend and fellow of the sea | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the gray woman | your name | friend and fellow of the sea = friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 3 | name in a quote | your | nom name «communication 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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