The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 13
“Who painted the sky and gave it its blue and friendly color?” asked the wise men.
Who acts: wise men · What happens: paint, give, ask · To what, where: sky · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wise 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 | _ | 3 painted | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 painted | nsubj |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 color | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 color | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 friendly | cc |
| 12 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blue | conj |
| 13 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 18 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint in a quote | past | the sky | Who nsubj | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sky=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | sky | sky's blue color obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient color=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the wise men | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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