The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 54
“Surely you are unwise and selfish,” then said the Minstrel, “and foolish it would be to waste words in argument.
Who acts: you, Minstrel, cover · What happens: be, say · To what, where: argument · 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 (you, Minstrel, cover), 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 unwise | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 unwise | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 unwise | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unwise | cop |
| 5 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 selfish | cc |
| 7 | selfish | selfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 unwise | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unwise | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unwise | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 said | advmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Minstrel | det |
| 13 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 foolish | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 foolish | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 foolish | cc |
| 17 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 waste | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 waste | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 waste | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 waste | mark |
| 22 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 foolish | ccomp |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 waste | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 argument | case |
| 25 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waste | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | selfish conj; surely, unwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Minstrel | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | would | cover | argument | words obj; waste property | tree rules |
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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