The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 26

“Tell me,” he said, “is there any one in this house that can stop the flow of blood, that can heal the wounds of Iron?”

Who acts: Wainamoinen, that, blood · What happens: tell, say, be, stop, heal, flow · To what, where: Wainamoinen, one, house, flow, wounds, Iron · 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, that, blood), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 one	nmod
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stop	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stop	aux
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 one	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flow	det
21	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stop	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 blood	case
23	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flow	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 heal	punct
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 heal	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 heal	aux
27	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 one	parataxis
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wounds	det
29	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heal	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Iron	case
31	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wounds	nmod
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 heal	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Wainamoinen		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	say speech: ask	past	Wainamoinen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present		any one		this house	tree rules
4	stop in a quote	can	that	the flow of blood			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flow=Eventuality
5	heal in a quote	can	that	the wounds of Iron			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
6	flow in a quote		blood				nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	wound in a quote			Iron			nom wound «state transitive»: of=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 26