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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 30

The Minstrel saw now that he was beaten; he felt that all his secret plans had been discovered, and so he concealed his bitter feelings while he acknowledged defeat.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: see, beat, feel, discover, conceal, acknowledge · To what, where: Minstrel, secret plans, bitter feelings, defeat

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), 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

detnsubjadvmodmarknsubjaux:passxcomppunctnsubjparataxismarkdet:predetnmod:possamodnsubj:passauxaux:passccomppunctccadvmodnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjmarknsubjadvclobjpunctrootTheDETMinstrelPROPNsawVERBnowADVthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXbeatenVERB;PUNCThePRONfeltVERBthatSCONJallDEThisPRONsecretADJplansNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXdiscoveredVERB,PUNCTandCCONJsoADVhePRONconcealedVERBhisPRONbitterADJfeelingsNOUNwhileSCONJhePRONacknowledgedVERBdefeatNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Minstreldet
2MinstrelMinstrelPROPNNumber=Sing3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4nownowADVPronType=Dem3 sawadvmod
5thatthatSCONJ_8 beatenmark
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 beatennsubj
7wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 beatenaux:pass
8beatenbeatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 sawxcomp
9;;PUNCT_11 feltpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 feltnsubj
11feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawparataxis
12thatthatSCONJ_19 discoveredmark
13allallDETPronType=Tot16 plansdet:predet
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 plansnmod:poss
15secretsecretADJDegree=Pos16 plansamod
16plansplanNOUNNumber=Plur19 discoverednsubj:pass
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 discoveredaux
18beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part19 discoveredaux:pass
19discovereddiscoverVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 feltccomp
20,,PUNCT_24 concealedpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 concealedcc
22sosoADV_24 concealedadvmod
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 concealednsubj
24concealedconcealVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawconj
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 feelingsnmod:poss
26bitterbitterADJDegree=Pos27 feelingsamod
27feelingsfeelingNOUNNumber=Plur24 concealedobj
28whilewhileSCONJ_30 acknowledgedmark
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 acknowledgednsubj
30acknowledgedacknowledgeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 concealedadvcl
31defeatdefeatNOUNNumber=Sing30 acknowledgedobj
32..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastthe Minstrelnowvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2beatpast · passiveMinstrelvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3feelpastMinstrelvn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4discoverpast · perfect · passiveMinstrel's secret plansvn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5concealpastMinstrelMinstrel's bitter feelingsvn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient
6acknowledgepastMinstreldefeatvn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defeat=Topic
7planMinstrelnom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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