The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 17
“Well, my child,” said the mother, “this is surely the same great hero, the famous Wainamoinen, the first of all minstrels.
Who acts: child, this · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mother, same great hero · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, this), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 child | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mother | det |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hero | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hero | punct |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hero | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hero | cop |
| 15 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 19 hero | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hero | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hero | amod |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hero | amod |
| 19 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Wainamoinen | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Wainamoinen | det |
| 22 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Wainamoinen | amod |
| 23 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hero | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 first | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 first | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 Wainamoinen | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 minstrels | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 minstrels | det |
| 29 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 first | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my child | the mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the same great hero | the famous Wainamoinen appos; surely 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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