The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 43
“That was a very silly bird,” said Wainamoinen, “and I wonder that his mate listened to such foolish chatter.”
Who acts: That, silly bird, mate · What happens: be, say, wonder, listen · To what, where: silly bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, silly bird, mate), 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 | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bird | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 silly | advmod |
| 6 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wonder | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wonder | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wonder | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wonder | nsubj |
| 16 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 listened | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 listened | nsubj |
| 20 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wonder | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 chatter | case |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chatter | amod |
| 23 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chatter | amod |
| 24 | chatter | chatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 listened | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | That | a silly bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a silly bird | Wainamoinen nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | a silly bird = bird | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | listen in a quote | past | Wainamoinen's mate | to such foolish chatter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to chatter=Theme |
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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