The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 8
“What now, old friend and companion?
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 What | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 companion | cc |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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