The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 118
“Well, then,” said the cunning Minstrel, “let us make what we can of this wonderful tree; for it may disappear as suddenly as it came.
Who acts: cunning Minstrel, us, tree · What happens: say, let, make, disappear, come · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cunning Minstrel, us, tree), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 9 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Minstrel | amod |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 can | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tree | amod |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 can | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 disappear | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 disappear | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 disappear | nsubj |
| 26 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 disappear | aux |
| 27 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | conj |
| 28 | as | as | ADV | _ | 29 suddenly | advmod |
| 29 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 27 disappear | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 came | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 suddenly | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cunning Minstrel | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | what obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product | ||||
| 4 | disappear in a quote | may | tree | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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