The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 154
Thereupon the Minstrel raised his hands towards heaven, and cried, “To thee, O Jumala, the gracious, I humbly offer thanks.
Who acts: Minstrel, old man · What happens: raise, cry, offer · To what, where: hands, Jumala, thee, thanks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, old man), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 raised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minstrel | det |
| 3 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 raised | obj |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 heaven | case |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raised | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thee | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thee | punct |
| 14 | To | to | ADP | _ | 15 thee | case |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 cried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Jumala | punct |
| 17 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 Jumala | discourse |
| 18 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gracious | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 gracious | det |
| 21 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Jumala | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 offer | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 offer | nsubj |
| 24 | humbly | humbly | ADV | _ | 25 offer | advmod |
| 25 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 raised | parataxis |
| 26 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 offer | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the Minstrel | Minstrel's hands | towards heaven; thereupon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Minstrel not said here | Jumala | thee | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to thou=Recipient | |||
| 3 | offer in a quote | present | the old man = man | thanks | humbly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme |
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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