The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 101
“Who will bring my tears back to me?” asked Wainamoinen, his voice trembling while his long fingers still played upon the harp strings.
Who acts: voice, long fingers · What happens: bring back, ask, tremble, play · To what, where: tears, me, Wainamoinen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, long fingers), 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 bring | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tears | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Wainamoinen | appos |
| 17 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 voice | acl |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 played | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fingers | amod |
| 21 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 played | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 played | advmod |
| 23 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 trembling | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 strings | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 strings | det |
| 26 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strings | compound |
| 27 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 played | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back in a quote | future | my tears | me | Who nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to i=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Wainamoinen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent wainamoinen=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | Wainamoinen's voice not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play | past | Wainamoinen's long fingers | still | upon the harp strings | 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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