The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 44
“Have you ever in all your travels met a minstrel, old and steady, whom men call Wainamoinen?”
Who acts: you, men · What happens: have, meet, call · To what, where: minstrel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, men), 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 | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Have | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 2 Have | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 met | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 met | det:predet |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 met | nmod:poss |
| 8 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | aux:pass |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Have | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 minstrel | det |
| 11 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 minstrel | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 steady | cc |
| 15 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 old | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 call | punct |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 call | obj |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 call | nsubj |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 minstrel | acl:relcl |
| 20 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 call | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | you | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | present · passive | you not said here | a minstrel | your nmod:poss | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: minstrel=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | men | a minstrel | Wainamoinen xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
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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