The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 45

“Have patience, brother, and I will tell you all,” answered the Minstrel.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: have, tell, answer · To what, where: patience, you · 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 answered	ccomp
3	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brother	punct
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 patience	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Have	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 you	nmod:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Minstrel	det
17	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have in a quote	infinitive		patience and brother		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the Minstrel = minstrel		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the Minstrel			tree rules

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 45