The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 10
“Sweeter than the chirping of song-birds—yes, sweeter than the warbling of meadow larks—is the merry prattling of one’s own home folk,” returned the Minstrel.
Who acts: Sweeter · What happens: be, return · To what, where: merry prattling, Minstrel
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweeter), 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 | _ | 2 Sweeter | punct |
| 2 | Sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 chirping | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chirping | det |
| 5 | chirping | chirping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sweeter | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 birds | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 song | punct |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chirping | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweeter | punct |
| 11 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 sweeter | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sweeter | punct |
| 13 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Sweeter | conj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 warbling | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 warbling | det |
| 16 | warbling | warbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sweeter | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 larks | case |
| 18 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 larks | compound |
| 19 | larks | lark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 warbling | nmod |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 prattling | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 prattling | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prattling | det |
| 23 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 prattling | amod |
| 24 | prattling | prattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warbling | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 folk | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 folk | nsubj |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 one | case |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 folk | amod |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 folk | compound |
| 30 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prattling | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sweeter | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sweeter | punct |
| 33 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Minstrel | det |
| 35 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 returned | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Sweeter than the chirping of song birds not said here | the merry prattling | of own home folk | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | Sweeter than the chirping of song birds | the Minstrel | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=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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