The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 147
“Caw! caw! caw!” cried the bird of ill-omen.
Who acts: Caw · What happens: cry · To what, where: bird
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 (Caw), 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 Caw | punct |
| 2 | Caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caw | punct |
| 4 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Caw | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caw | punct |
| 6 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Caw | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caw | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caw | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 omen | case |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 omen | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 15 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bird | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Caw and caw and caw | the bird of ill omen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
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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