The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 69
“With the help of magic I have constructed a vessel more wonderful than your eyes ever saw—more beautiful than your dreams ever pictured.
Who acts: Minstrel, eyes, your · What happens: construct, see, picture, help, dream · To what, where: vessel, dreams, magic
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, eyes, your), 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 | _ | 9 constructed | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 help | det |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 constructed | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 magic | case |
| 6 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 constructed | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 constructed | aux |
| 9 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 constructed | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 wonderful | advmod |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 constructed | xcomp |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 saw | mark |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 saw | advmod |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wonderful | advcl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 constructed | conj |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 dreams | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 beautiful | obl |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 pictured | advmod |
| 26 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dreams | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 constructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | construct in a quote | present · perfect | the Minstrel = minstrel | a vessel | with the help of magic; wonderful property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient with help=Instrument | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | your eyes | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | picture in a quote | participle | your dreams not said here | ever | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | magic | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | dream in a quote | your | nom dream «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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