The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 14
“Whither are you sailing, brave Minstrel?” asked the Smith kindly, but with a sense of victory.
Who acts: you, Smith · What happens: sail, ask, sense · To what, where: brave Minstrel, victory · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Smith), 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 | _ | 5 sailing | punct |
| 2 | Whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sailing | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sailing | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sailing | nsubj |
| 5 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Minstrel | punct |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Minstrel | amod |
| 8 | Minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sailing | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sailing | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Smith | det |
| 13 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sense | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 sense | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 sense | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sense | det |
| 19 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 victory | case |
| 21 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sense | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail in a quote | present · progressive | you | brave Minstrel | whither property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Smith | with a sense of victory; kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sense | victory | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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