The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 92
“With my long arms I can call forth the melodies that now lie slumbering within it.
Who acts: nimble Ahti, melodies · What happens: call, lie, slumber · To what, where: melodies · 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 (nimble Ahti, melodies), 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 | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 2 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 arms | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arms | amod |
| 5 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 call | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 call | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 melodies | det |
| 11 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 call | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lie | nsubj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 lie | advmod |
| 14 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 melodies | acl:relcl |
| 15 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 lie | xcomp |
| 16 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 slumbering | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | can | the nimble Ahti = ahti | the melodies | with my long arms; forth property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent melody=Recipient | |||
| 2 | lie in a quote | present | the melodies | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slumber in a quote | gerund | the melodies not said here | within instrument | vn snooze-40.4 «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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