The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 101
“Alas, alas! that the grandest treasure in the world should thus be scattered and lost!” cried the Minstrel.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: scatter, lose, cry · To what, where: grandest treasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel), 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 | _ | 21 cried | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 16 scattered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 2 Alas | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 scattered | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 treasure | det |
| 8 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 treasure | amod |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 treasure | nmod |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 scattered | aux |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 scattered | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 scattered | aux:pass |
| 16 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lost | cc |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 scattered | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 scattered | punct |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Minstrel | det |
| 23 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter in a quote | should · passive | the grandest treasure in the world | thus property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Minstrel | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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