The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 42
“Three magic words may stop the flood, three magic drops may heal the wound,” answered the Graybeard.
Who acts: Three magic words, three magic drops, Graybeard · What happens: stop, heal, answer · To what, where: flood, wound · 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 (Three magic words, three magic drops, Graybeard), 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 | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 words | nummod |
| 3 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stop | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stop | aux |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 answered | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flood | det |
| 8 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stop | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 heal | punct |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 drops | nummod |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drops | amod |
| 12 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heal | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 heal | aux |
| 14 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stop | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wound | det |
| 16 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heal | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stop | punct |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Graybeard | det |
| 21 | Graybeard | Graybeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 answered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | may | Three magic words | the flood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality flood=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | heal in a quote | may | three magic drops | the wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the Graybeard | tree rules |
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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