The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 33
“I have been tossed on the sea; I have been in many countries; I have seen the whole vast world.”
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: toss, be, see · To what, where: Minstrel, sea, many countries, whole vast world
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), 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 | _ | 5 tossed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tossed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tossed | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 tossed | aux:pass |
| 5 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tossed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 countries | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 countries | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 countries | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 countries | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 countries | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 countries | amod |
| 15 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tossed | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 tossed | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 21 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 world | amod |
| 22 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 world | amod |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tossed | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Minstrel = minstrel | the sea | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme on sea=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the Minstrel = minstrel | many countries | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · perfect | the Minstrel = minstrel | the whole vast world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
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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