The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 48
He tells wonderful stories of the good people of Pohyola—pleasant tales of a pleasant land.”
Who acts: man, pleasant land · What happens: tell · To what, where: wonderful stories · 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 (man, pleasant land), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tells | nsubj |
| 2 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tells | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stories | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Pohyola | case |
| 10 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tales | punct |
| 12 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tales | amod |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stories | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 land | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 16 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 land | amod |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tales | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | man | wonderful stories of the good people of Pohyola and pleasant tales of a pleasant land | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell | a pleasant land | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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