The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 17
On the ground far below him, the Minstrel was working his spells of magic.
Who acts: Minstrel, tree · What happens: work, spell · To what, where: spells, ground, magic
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 ground | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ground | det |
| 3 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 working | obl |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ground | advmod |
| 5 | below | below | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 far | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ground | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Minstrel | det |
| 9 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 working | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 working | aux |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 spells | nmod:poss |
| 13 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 working | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 magic | case |
| 15 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spells | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · progressive | the Minstrel | tree's spells of magic | the ground | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spell=Material | |||
| 2 | spell | tree | magic | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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