The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 102
Then, changing his theme and the subject of his song he tuned his voice to a higher key.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: change, tune, sing · To what, where: theme, voice
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 changing | punct |
| 3 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 theme | nmod:poss |
| 5 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changing | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 subject | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 subject | det |
| 8 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 theme | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 song | nmod:poss |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 subject | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tuned | nsubj |
| 13 | tuned | tune | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 song | acl:relcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tuned | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 key | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 key | det |
| 18 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 key | amod |
| 19 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tuned | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | Wainamoinen's theme and the subject of Wainamoinen's song | then | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theme=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tune | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's voice | to a higher key | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing | Wainamoinen | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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