The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 58

“I thank you for your welcome, wise queen of the North,” responded the Minstrel; “but I cannot sit at your fireside, I cannot eat at your table, I cannot rest by your shores until I tell you the object of my visit, the reason for my coming.”

Who acts: Minstrel, your, my · What happens: thank, respond, not sit, not eat, not rest, tell · To what, where: you, fireside, table, object, reason · 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 (Minstrel, your, my), 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	_	16 responded	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 thank	nsubj
3	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 responded	parataxis
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 thank	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 welcome	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 welcome	nmod:poss
7	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 queen	punct
9	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 queen	amod
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 welcome	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 North	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 North	det
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 queen	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 thank	punct
16	responded	respond	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Minstrel	det
18	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 responded	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 sit	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sit	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 sit	advmod
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 responded	conj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 fireside	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 fireside	nmod:poss
28	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eat	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 eat	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 eat	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 eat	advmod
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sit	parataxis
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 table	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 table	nmod:poss
36	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 eat	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 rest	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 rest	nsubj
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 rest	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 rest	advmod
41	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 eat	conj
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 shores	case
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 shores	nmod:poss
44	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 rest	obl
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	47 tell	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 tell	nsubj
47	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 rest	advcl
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 tell	iobj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 object	det
50	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 tell	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 visit	case
52	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 visit	nmod:poss
53	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 object	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 reason	punct
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 reason	det
56	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 object	appos
57	for	for	SCONJ	_	59 coming	mark
58	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 coming	nsubj
59	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 reason	acl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 responded	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 responded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the Minstrel = minstrel		you		for your welcome	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for welcome=Attribute
2	respond speech: other	past	the Minstrel					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not sit in a quote	can	the Minstrel = minstrel			your fireside		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fireside=Location
4	not eat in a quote	can	the Minstrel = minstrel			your table		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not rest in a quote	can	the Minstrel = minstrel				by your shores	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by shore=Location
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the Minstrel = minstrel	the object of my visit	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient object=Topic
7	come in a quote	gerund	the Minstrel = minstrel	the reason not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reason=Theme
8	welcome in a quote		your					nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=agent
9	visit in a quote		my					nom visit «act 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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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 58