The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 69
The gray-bearded Minstrel shook his head and sighed.
Who acts: bearded Minstrel · What happens: shake, sigh · To what, where: head
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 (bearded 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bearded | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gray | punct |
| 4 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Minstrel | amod |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | nsubj |
| 6 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shook | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sighed | cc |
| 10 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shook | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the bearded Minstrel | Pohyola's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sigh | past | the bearded Minstrel not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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