The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 87
Great pain fell upon the Minstrel, and yet he was fearless and undaunted.
Who acts: Great pain, pain · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: Minstrel
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 (Great pain, pain), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pain | amod |
| 2 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 Minstrel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Minstrel | det |
| 6 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fearless | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fearless | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 fearless | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fearless | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fearless | cop |
| 12 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 undaunted | cc |
| 14 | undaunted | undaunted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fearless | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Great pain | the Minstrel | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon minstrel=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | pain | yet | fearless property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | pain not said here | 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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