The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 109
“O brave blue duck, friend and helper!” said the Minstrel.
Who acts: brave blue duck · What happens: say · 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 (brave blue duck), 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 | _ | 5 duck | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 duck | discourse |
| 3 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 duck | amod |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 duck | amod |
| 5 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 duck | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 helper | cc |
| 9 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 duck | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 duck | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 duck | 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | brave blue duck and friend and helper | the Minstrel nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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