The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 11
The Minstrel had heard that song a thousand times before; nevertheless, it seamed strangely new to him, and he leaned forward to listen to the words:
Who acts: Minstrel, song · What happens: hear, seam, learn, listen · To what, where: song, new
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, song), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Minstrel | det |
| 2 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 song | mark |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thousand | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 times | nummod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 before | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 seamed | punct |
| 12 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 15 seamed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seamed | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seamed | nsubj |
| 15 | seamed | seam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 16 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 17 new | advmod |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seamed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 new | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaned | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leaned | nsubj |
| 23 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seamed | conj |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 leaned | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 listen | mark |
| 26 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 leaned | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 words | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 words | det |
| 29 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 listen | obl |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | the Minstrel | song | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | seam | past | song | new to Minstrel | nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | learn | past | Minstrel | forward property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | listen | to-infinitive | Minstrel not said here | to the words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
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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