The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 97
And not once did he open his lips in song, for there was no music in his heart; and how shall a minstrel sing if his heart is empty?
Who acts: Wainamoinen, music, heart · What happens: open, be · To what, where: lips, song
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 (Wainamoinen, music, heart), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 open | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 once | advmod |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 open | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 open | nsubj |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lips | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 song | case |
| 10 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 was | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 was | expl |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | advcl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 music | det |
| 16 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 music | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 empty | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shall | cc |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 shall | advmod |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 empty | aux |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sing | det |
| 25 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sing | compound |
| 26 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shall | nsubj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 empty | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 empty | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 empty | cop |
| 31 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 open | advcl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past · do-support | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's lips | song | once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lip=Theme in song=Location | ||
| 2 | be | past | no music in Wainamoinen's heart | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | shall | Wainamoinen's heart | empty property | tree rules |
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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