The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 38

Then, in a few words wisely spoken, the Minstrel told of his shipwreck, and how for eight days—yes, for nine long, wearisome days—he had been carried hither and thither on the crests of the waves.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: speak, tell, carry · To what, where: few words, Minstrel, crests · 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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 spoken	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 words	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 words	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spoken	obl
7	wisely	wisely	ADV	_	8 spoken	advmod
8	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spoken	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Minstrel	det
11	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 shipwreck	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shipwreck	nmod:poss
15	shipwreck	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 carried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 carried	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 carried	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 days	case
20	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carried	obl
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 days	punct
23	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	30 days	discourse
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 days	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	30 days	case
26	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
29	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carried	obl
31	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 carried	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 carried	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 carried	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 carried	aux:pass
35	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	conj
36	hither	hither	ADV	_	35 carried	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 thither	cc
38	thither	thither	ADV	_	36 hither	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 crests	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 crests	det
41	crests	crest	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 carried	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 waves	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 waves	det
44	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 crests	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	participle	the Minstrel not said here		a few words	then	wisely property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Minstrel				of Minstrel's shipwreck	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry	past · perfect · passive		Minstrel	the crests of the waves; thither	day	hither property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 38