The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 20
They were telling pleasant tales of their neighbors and of goblins and ghosts and unnamable things.
Who acts: Hail, neighbors · What happens: tell · To what, where: pleasant tales · 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 (Hail, neighbors), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 telling | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 telling | aux |
| 3 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tales | amod |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 telling | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 neighbors | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tales | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 goblins | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 goblins | case |
| 11 | goblins | goblin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 neighbors | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ghosts | cc |
| 13 | ghosts | ghost | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 neighbors | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 things | cc |
| 15 | unnamable | unnamable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 neighbors | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · progressive | Hail | pleasant tales of Hail's neighbors and goblins and ghosts and unnamable things | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell | Hail's neighbors and goblins and ghosts and unnamable things | nom tale «communication 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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