The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 88

“Come, come, dear brother!” said the Minstrel gently, as though conceding all.

Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: come, say, concede · To what, where: all · 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 brother	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brother	amod
7	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	vocative
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Minstrel	det
12	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	gently	gently	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 conceding	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 conceding	mark
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 conceding	mark
17	conceding	concede	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 conceding	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			dear brother vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	the Minstrel		gently property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	concede	gerund	the Minstrel not said here	all		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent all=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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 88