The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 129
Perhaps the words that I need so badly have been stolen by some of these birds.
Who acts: I · What happens: need, steal · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 stolen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 need | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 need | nsubj |
| 6 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 words | acl:relcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 badly | advmod |
| 8 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 need | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stolen | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 stolen | aux:pass |
| 11 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 some | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 stolen | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 birds | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | I | the words | badly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | |||
| 2 | steal | present · perfect · passive | the words | by some of this birds; perhaps property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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