The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 9
“Will he ever come?” she murmured, half aloud though speaking to herself; and her mother, Dame Louhi, from her couch echoed her words, “Will he ever come?”
Who acts: Beauty, Wainamoinen, mother · What happens: come, murmur, speak, echo, word · To what, where: Wainamoinen, words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty, Wainamoinen, mother), 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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 murmured | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 9 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aloud | punct |
| 11 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 aloud | advmod |
| 12 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 9 murmured | advmod |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 speaking | mark |
| 14 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 murmured | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 herself | case |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 speaking | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 echoed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 echoed | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 echoed | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Dame | punct |
| 22 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | appos |
| 23 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Dame | flat |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 couch | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 couch | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 couch | nmod:poss |
| 27 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 echoed | nsubj |
| 28 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 murmured | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 words | nmod:poss |
| 30 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 echoed | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 33 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 come | advmod |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 echoed | ccomp |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | future | Beauty | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | Wainamoinen | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | Wainamoinen not said here | Wainamoinen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to herself=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | echo | past | Wainamoinen's mother | Wainamoinen's words | Wainamoinen's couch nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come in a quote | future | Beauty | ever | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | word | Wainamoinen | nom word «communication 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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