The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 101
Perhaps the Mistress of the land, the old, the grim, the gray, the Wise Woman of the North, will be able to touch the harp strings aright—perhaps she will know how to play the kantele and bring sweet melodies from its heart.”
Who acts: Mistress · What happens: be, touch, know, play, bring · To what, where: harp strings, kantele, sweet melodies, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 3 Mistress | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mistress | det |
| 3 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 able | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Mistress | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 old | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mistress | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grim | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grim | det |
| 12 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 old | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gray | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gray | det |
| 15 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 old | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Woman | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Woman | det |
| 18 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Woman | amod |
| 19 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gray | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 North | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 North | det |
| 22 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Woman | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mistress | punct |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 touch | mark |
| 28 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 strings | det |
| 30 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 strings | compound |
| 31 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 touch | obj |
| 32 | aright | aright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 touch | xcomp |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 34 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 37 know | advmod |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 know | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | aux |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | parataxis |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 play | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 play | mark |
| 40 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 know | ccomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 kantele | det |
| 42 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 play | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 bring | cc |
| 44 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | conj |
| 45 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 melodies | amod |
| 46 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 bring | obj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 heart | case |
| 48 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 heart | nmod:poss |
| 49 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bring | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the Mistress of the land | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | touch | to-infinitive | the Mistress of the land not said here | the harp strings | aright property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | know | future | Mistress | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | the kantele | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kantele=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring | present | Mistress not said here | sweet melodies | kantele's heart | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent melody=Theme from heart=Initial_Location |
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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