The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 83
“What will you kill?” asked Ilmarinen.
What happens: kill, ask · To what, where: Ilmarinen · 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: 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 kill | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | future | What nsubj; you nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ilmarinen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent ilmarinen=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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