The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 42
“We have often heard of your skill, and your praise is in all men’s mouths,” said the eager Mistress.
Who acts: We, praise, eager Mistress, your · What happens: hear, be, say, praise · To what, where: mouths · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, praise, eager Mistress, your), 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 | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 skill | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 skill | nmod:poss |
| 8 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mouths | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mouths | cc |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 praise | nmod:poss |
| 12 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mouths | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mouths | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mouths | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 men | det |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 men | case |
| 18 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mouths | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Mistress | det |
| 23 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Mistress | amod |
| 24 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect | We | of your skill; often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of skill=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your praise | all men's mouths | all men nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the eager Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | praise in a quote | your | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=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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