The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 167
Then, sitting by the pleasant fireside, the Minstrel answered him by telling a story—a story as old as the race of man on earth.
Who acts: Minstrel, man · What happens: sit, answer, tell, race · To what, where: Graybeard, story · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sitting | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 answered | advcl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 fireside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fireside | det |
| 6 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fireside | amod |
| 7 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sitting | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 telling | mark |
| 14 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 telling | obj |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 story | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | appos |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 old | advmod |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 story | amod |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 race | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 race | det |
| 24 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 old | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 race | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 man | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | then | by the pleasant fireside | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Minstrel | Graybeard | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the Minstrel not said here | a story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | race | man on earth | nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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