The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 19
So he dissembled his feelings and with his tongue made glad answer while his heart was burning with disappointment.
Who acts: Minstrel, heart · What happens: dissemble, make, burn · To what, where: feelings, glad answer
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 (Minstrel, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dissembled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dissembled | nsubj |
| 3 | dissembled | dissemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feelings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dissembled | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tongue | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dissembled | conj |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 answer | amod |
| 12 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 burning | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burning | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 burning | aux |
| 17 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 disappointment | case |
| 19 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burning | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dissembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissemble | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's feelings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Minstrel not said here | glad answer | with Minstrel's tongue | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | |||
| 3 | burn | past · progressive | Minstrel's heart | with disappointment | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with disappointment=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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