The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 76

“The flow of blood is stanched,” he said; “we must now heal Iron’s bitter bite, we must close up the gaping, ugly wound.”

Who acts: Graybeard, we, blood, Iron · What happens: stanch, say, heal, close up, flow, bite · To what, where: flow, bitter bite, gaping · 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 (Graybeard, we, blood, Iron), 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	_	7 stanched	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flow	det
3	flow	flow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stanched	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 blood	case
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flow	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stanched	aux:pass
7	stanched	stanch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stanched	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 stanched	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 heal	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 heal	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 heal	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 heal	aux
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 heal	advmod
17	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	Iron	Iron	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bite	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 Iron	case
20	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bite	amod
21	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heal	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 close	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 close	aux
25	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 heal	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 close	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 gaping	det
28	gaping	gaping	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 close	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 wound	punct
30	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wound	amod
31	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gaping	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 heal	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 heal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	stanch in a quote	present · passive		the flow of blood		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Graybeard			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	heal in a quote	must	we	Iron's bitter bite	now	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
4	close up in a quote	must	we	the gaping and ugly wound		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaping=Patient
5	flow in a quote		blood			nom flow «event intransitive»: of=agent
6	bite in a quote		Iron			nom bite «state transitive»: poss=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 76