The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 131
“I can turn things over, tear things up,” answered the plough.
Who acts: plough · What happens: turn over, tear up, answer · To what, where: things · 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 (plough), 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 | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tear | punct |
| 8 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turn | conj |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tear | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 tear | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 turn | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plough | det |
| 15 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over in a quote | can | the plough = plough | things | over property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||
| 2 | tear up in a quote | infinitive | the plough = plough not said here | things | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the plough | tree rules |
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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