The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 87
“Nay, nay!” moaned the sad Minstrel.
What happens: moan · To what, where: sad Minstrel
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: 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 | _ | 7 moaned | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 7 moaned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 4 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 2 Nay | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nay | punct |
| 7 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Minstrel | amod |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 moaned | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | past | the sad Minstrel | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent minstrel=Theme |
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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