The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 21
The Minstrel old and feeble uttered a cry of joy.
Who acts: Minstrel, joy · What happens: utter, cry · To what, where: cry
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, joy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feeble | cc |
| 5 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 6 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cry | det |
| 8 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uttered | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cry | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the Minstrel | a cry of joy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry | joy | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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