The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 118
“Ah, me!” sighed the Smith, “she, too, has an evil nature.
Who acts: me, heifer · What happens: sigh, have · To what, where: Smith, evil nature
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, heifer), 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 | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 me | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sighed | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Smith | det |
| 9 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 has | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 has | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 has | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 too | punct |
| 16 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighed | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 nature | det |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 nature | amod |
| 19 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 has | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | me | the Smith | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | heifer | a evil nature | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=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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