The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 41
“First tell me,” said the Minstrel feebly, “tell me if you can stop this flow of blood and heal this wound of Iron.”
Who acts: you, Minstrel, blood · What happens: tell, say, stop, heal, flow, wound · To what, where: Minstrel, elder, flow, wound, 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 (you, Minstrel, 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Minstrel | det |
| 9 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 stop | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stop | aux |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | advcl |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 flow | det |
| 20 | flow | flow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stop | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 blood | case |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flow | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heal | cc |
| 24 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 stop | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 wound | det |
| 26 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heal | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Iron | case |
| 28 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wound | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the Minstrel = minstrel | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Minstrel | feebly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the elder of the two = elder | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stop a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | you | this flow of blood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector flow=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | heal in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | this wound 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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