The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 72
No minstrel’s song can depict that scene so fraught with woe, so horrible to contemplate.
Who acts: song, minstrel · What happens: depict, contemplate, sing · To what, where: scene
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (song, minstrel), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 minstrel | det |
| 2 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 minstrel | case |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depict | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 depict | aux |
| 6 | depict | depict | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 scene | det |
| 8 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 depict | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 fraught | advmod |
| 10 | fraught | fraught | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scene | amod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 woe | case |
| 12 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fraught | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 horrible | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 horrible | advmod |
| 15 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 depict | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 contemplate | mark |
| 17 | contemplate | contemplate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 horrible | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 depict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depict | can | no minstrel's song | that scene | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | ||||
| 2 | contemplate | to-infinitive | no minstrel's song not said here | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing | no minstrel | 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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