The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 66
Men call you the sweet singer of Hero Land, and they say that no other songs cheer the dreary hours of winter as yours do.
Who acts: Men, other songs, yours · What happens: call, say, cheer, do · 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 (Men, other songs, yours), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 singer | det |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 singer | amod |
| 6 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 call | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hero | case |
| 8 | Hero | Hero | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 singer | nmod |
| 9 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hero | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 say | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 call | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 cheer | mark |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 songs | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 songs | amod |
| 17 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cheer | nsubj |
| 18 | cheer | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 say | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hours | det |
| 20 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hours | amod |
| 21 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cheer | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 winter | case |
| 23 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hours | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 25 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cheer | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present | Men | you | the sweet singer of Hero xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | men = man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cheer | present | no other songs | hour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | do | present | yours | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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