The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 60
The stranger, who also was old and gray, answered, “My name is Wainamoinen, and all the world knows me; for I am the first of minstrels, the prince of wizards, the man whom other men delight to honor.
Who acts: stranger, name, world, other men, My · What happens: be, answer, know, delight, honor, name · To what, where: Wainamoinen, stranger, man · 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 (stranger, name, world, other men), 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 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 old | nsubj |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 old | advmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stranger | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gray | cc |
| 9 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 old | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 stranger | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wainamoinen | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wainamoinen | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Wainamoinen | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Wainamoinen | cop |
| 17 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knows | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knows | cc |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 world | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knows | nsubj |
| 23 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 knows | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 first | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 first | case |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 first | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 first | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 first | det |
| 30 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 knows | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 minstrels | case |
| 32 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 first | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 prince | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 prince | det |
| 35 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 first | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 wizards | case |
| 37 | wizards | wizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 prince | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 man | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 first | appos |
| 41 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 delight | obj |
| 42 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 men | amod |
| 43 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 delight | nsubj |
| 44 | delight | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 man | acl:relcl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 honor | mark |
| 46 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 delight | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stranger | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the stranger not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the stranger | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | My name | Wainamoinen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | all world | the stranger = stranger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the stranger = stranger | for the first; of minstrels; the prince of wizards appos; the man appos | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | delight in a quote | present | other men | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | honor in a quote | to-infinitive | other men not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | name in a quote | My | 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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