The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 17
“They are the sparks from my forge,” was the answer.
Who acts: stars, sparks · What happens: be · To what, where: sparks, forge, answer · 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 (stars, sparks), 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 sparks | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sparks | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sparks | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sparks | det |
| 5 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 answer | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 forge | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 forge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sparks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sparks | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sparks | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 answer | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 answer | det |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | stars = star | the sparks | my forge | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | the sparks | the answer | 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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