The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 5
First, she built in Pohyola a house so roomy and large that even minstrels blushed to tell its dimensions, and story-tellers feared to speak the truth.
Who acts: Dame, minstrels · What happens: build, blush, tell, fear, speak · To what, where: house, Pohyola, minstrels, dimensions, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Dame, minstrels), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 built | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 built | nsubj |
| 4 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Pohyola | case |
| 6 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 roomy | advmod |
| 10 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 built | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 large | cc |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roomy | amod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 feared | mark |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 minstrels | advmod |
| 15 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 feared | nsubj |
| 16 | blushed | blush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 minstrels | acl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 tell | mark |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blushed | xcomp |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dimensions | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dimensions | dimension | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tell | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 feared | cc |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tellers | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 story | punct |
| 25 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 feared | nsubj |
| 26 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 large | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 speak | mark |
| 28 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 feared | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 speak | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Dame | a house | Pohyola | roomy obl; first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||
| 2 | blush | participle | minstrels not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | roomy's dimensions | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dimension=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | fear | past | minstrels | story tellers nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | minstrels not said here | the truth | 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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