The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 19
“Where is the home of the Great Pike, the mightiest of all the creatures that swim in the water?” asked the fishermen.
Who acts: creatures, fishermen · What happens: be, swim, ask · To what, where: water · 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 (creatures, fishermen), 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 | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 home | det |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Pike | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pike | det |
| 8 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Pike | amod |
| 9 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 home | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mightiest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mightiest | det |
| 12 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 Pike | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 creatures | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 creatures | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 creatures | det |
| 16 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mightiest | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 swim | nsubj |
| 18 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swim | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 mightiest | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 mightiest | punct |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | advcl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fishermen | det |
| 26 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 asked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | present | all creatures | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the fishermen | the home of the Great Pike the mightiest of all creatures nsubj | 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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