The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 68
“You speak well,” said the dwarf; “stay where you are and enjoy the soft breezes from the sea.
Who acts: You · What happens: speak, say, stay, be, enjoy · To what, where: dwarf, soft breezes, sea · 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 (You), 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 | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 speak | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dwarf | det |
| 9 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 stay | punct |
| 12 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 speak | conj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 stay | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 where | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 where | cop |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 enjoy | cc |
| 17 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stay | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 breezes | det |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breezes | amod |
| 20 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 enjoy | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoy | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | You | well property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | You not said here | the dwarf | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | enjoy in a quote | present | You not said here | the soft breezes | the sea | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breeze=Stimulus |
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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