The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 79
Call it the kantele, call it the harp of the North, and let minstrels never fail to play upon it.”
Who acts: you, minstrels · What happens: call, let, not fail, play · To what, where: music · 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 (you, minstrels), 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 | Call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Call | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kantele | det |
| 4 | kantele | kantele | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Call | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Call | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 harp | det |
| 9 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 North | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 North | det |
| 12 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 harp | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Call | parataxis |
| 16 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fail | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 fail | advmod |
| 18 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 play | mark |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 fail | xcomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 play | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Call | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | music | the kantele xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 2 | call | infinitive | you not said here | music | the harp of the North obj | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme harp=Result | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not fail | present | minstrels | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | minstrels not said here | upon music | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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