The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 48
“How strange that a land of mists and fogs, a land so dreary and forbidding, should be so blessed with plenty!” said the Minstrel.
Who acts: land, Minstrel · What happens: forbid, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (land, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 strange | advmod |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 blessed | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blessed | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mists | case |
| 8 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 land | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fogs | cc |
| 10 | fogs | fog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mists | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 land | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mists | conj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 dreary | advmod |
| 15 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 land | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 forbidding | cc |
| 17 | forbidding | forbid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 dreary | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 land | punct |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 blessed | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 blessed | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 blessed | advmod |
| 22 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strange | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 plenty | case |
| 24 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blessed | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Minstrel | det |
| 29 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forbid in a quote | gerund | a land of mists and fogs and a land not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | should | a land of mists and fogs and a land | with plenty; blessed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Minstrel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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