The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 84
His voice was hoarse, his tones were discordant, there was no music in his song.
Who acts: voice, tones, music, Wainamoinen · What happens: be, intonate, sing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, tones, music, Wainamoinen), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 voice | nmod:poss |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoarse | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoarse | cop |
| 4 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 discordant | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tones | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 discordant | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discordant | cop |
| 9 | discordant | discordant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hoarse | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 was | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoarse | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 music | det |
| 14 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 was | nsubj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 song | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 song | nmod:poss |
| 17 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 music | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoarse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wainamoinen's voice | hoarse property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Wainamoinen's tones | discordant property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | no music in Wainamoinen's song | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | intonate | Wainamoinen | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sing | Wainamoinen | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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