The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 54
Loudly then did the Minstrel call to the heroes.
What happens: do · To what, where: Minstrel call
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 did | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 call | det |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 call | compound |
| 6 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 heroes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heroes | det |
| 9 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Minstrel call | then | to the heroes; loudly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
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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