The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 47
But no voice answered him save the echoes of his own words.
Who acts: voice, hero · What happens: answer, save, word · To what, where: hero, echoes
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 (voice, hero), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 echoes | det |
| 8 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 save | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 words | amod |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 echoes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | no voice | hero | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | save | infinitive | no voice not said here | the echoes of hero's own words | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | word | hero | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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