The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 63

“What a pity that these should be wasted!” said the Minstrel, picking up a fragment of the jawbone—a fragment with the teeth still fast within their sockets.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: pity, waste, say, pick up · To what, where: pity, fragment · 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 (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	_	4 pity	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pity	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pity	det
4	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 wasted	nsubj:pass
6	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 wasted	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 wasted	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 wasted	aux:pass
9	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pity	acl:relcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 wasted	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 pity	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Minstrel	det
14	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 picking	punct
16	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 picking	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 fragment	det
19	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 picking	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 jawbone	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 jawbone	det
22	jawbone	jawbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fragment	nmod
23	—	-	PUNCT	_	25 fragment	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fragment	det
25	fragment	fragment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 jawbone	appos
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 teeth	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 teeth	det
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fragment	nmod
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 fast	advmod
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 picking	advmod
31	within	within	ADP	_	33 sockets	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sockets	nmod:poss
33	sockets	socket	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fast	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pity in a quote					What nsubj	tree rules
2	waste in a quote	should · passive		a pity		these nsubj:pass	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	say speech: express	past	the Minstrel				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	pick up	gerund	the Minstrel not said here	a fragment of the jawbone	still	fast property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Topic

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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Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 63