The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 161
Wainamoinen, first of minstrels, answered, “Iron has no grudge against me.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, Iron · What happens: answer, have · To what, where: grudge · 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 (Wainamoinen, Iron), 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 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 minstrels | punct |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 minstrels | advmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 minstrels | case |
| 5 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Wainamoinen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wainamoinen | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 grudge | det |
| 13 | grudge | grudge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 grudge | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Wainamoinen and minstrels | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Iron | no grudge | against Wainamoinen and minstrels = wainamoinen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient |
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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