The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 82
“It shall be as you wish,” said the woman, and her tones were uncommonly tender and kind.
Who acts: face, woman, tones · What happens: be, say, intonate · 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 (face, woman, tones), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 wish | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wish | cop |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 wish | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wish | nsubj |
| 7 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 wish | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tender | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tender | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tones | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tender | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tender | cop |
| 18 | uncommonly | uncommonly | ADV | _ | 19 tender | advmod |
| 19 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kind | cc |
| 21 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tender | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | shall | face | you nsubj; wish property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | woman's tones | tender, uncommonly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | woman's tones not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | intonate | woman | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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