The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 77
Then, while with his sword he kept time to the rhythm of his song, he began a soft carol, sweet and low and very persuasive.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: keep, begin, sing · To what, where: soft carol
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 kept | mark |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 began | advcl |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rhythm | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rhythm | det |
| 12 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 song | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 song | nmod:poss |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rhythm | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kept | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 began | nsubj |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 carol | det |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 carol | amod |
| 21 | carol | carol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 began | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sweet | punct |
| 23 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 carol | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 low | cc |
| 25 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sweet | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 persuasive | cc |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 persuasive | advmod |
| 28 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sweet | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | Minstrel | time | with Minstrel's sword; to the rhythm of Minstrel's song | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Minstrel | a soft carol | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carol=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | sing | 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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