The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 136
“Perhaps the missing words are beneath the tongue of some four-footed animal,” he said.
Who acts: missing words, animal · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (missing words, animal), 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 | _ | 9 tongue | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 9 tongue | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 words | det |
| 4 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tongue | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tongue | cop |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 tongue | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tongue | det |
| 9 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 animal | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 animal | det |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 footed | nummod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 four | punct |
| 14 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 animal | amod |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tongue | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tongue | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 tongue | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the missing words | beneath the tongue; of some footed animal; perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | animal | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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