The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 123
The Smith answered curtly, coldly, yet politely: “You know quite well my hiding-place, for it was you who sent me thither.
Who acts: Smith, You, place · What happens: answer, know, be, send · To what, where: hiding place, Smith · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, You, place), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Smith | det |
| 2 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | curtly | curtly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 coldly | punct |
| 6 | coldly | coldly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 curtly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 8 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 know | cc |
| 9 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 8 yet | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 yet | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 well | advmod |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 know | advmod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 place | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hiding | punct |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sent | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 you | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 you | cop |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 sent | nsubj |
| 26 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 sent | obj |
| 28 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 26 sent | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Smith | curtly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | You | my hiding place | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | place | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send in a quote | past | the Smith = smith | who nsubj; thither property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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