The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 108
Lo! every tear-drop was a pearl of wondrous beauty—a pearl of priceless value, fit to adorn a queen or deck the crown of the mightiest king.
Who acts: tear drop, priceless value · What happens: be, adorn, deck, pearl, crown · To what, where: pearl, queen, crown, mightiest king
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 (tear drop, priceless value), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 6 drop | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 drop | det |
| 4 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drop | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tear | punct |
| 6 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pearl | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pearl | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pearl | det |
| 9 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 11 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beauty | amod |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pearl | nmod |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pearl | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pearl | det |
| 15 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pearl | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 value | case |
| 17 | priceless | priceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 value | amod |
| 18 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pearl | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fit | punct |
| 20 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pearl | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 adorn | mark |
| 22 | adorn | adorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fit | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 adorn | obj |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 deck | cc |
| 26 | deck | deck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 adorn | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crown | det |
| 28 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 deck | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 king | det |
| 31 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 king | amod |
| 32 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crown | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pearl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | every tear drop | a pearl and a pearl of priceless value | of wondrous beauty | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adorn | to-infinitive | every tear drop not said here | a queen | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queen=Destination | ||||
| 3 | deck | infinitive | every tear drop not said here | the crown of the mightiest king | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crown=Destination | ||||
| 4 | pearl | priceless value | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | crown | the mightiest king | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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