The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 74
“Why so rough, good Sampsa?” asked the tree, bowing its head and bending before the little master.
Who acts: rough good Sampsa · What happens: ask, bow, bend · To what, where: tree, head, little master
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 (rough good Sampsa), 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 | _ | 7 Sampsa | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 rough | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 rough | advmod |
| 4 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sampsa | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sampsa | punct |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Sampsa | amod |
| 7 | Sampsa | Sampsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sampsa | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sampsa | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bowing | punct |
| 14 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bowing | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bending | cc |
| 18 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bowing | conj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 master | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 master | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 master | amod |
| 22 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bending | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | rough good Sampsa | the tree | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | rough good Sampsa not said here | axe's head | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bend | gerund | rough good Sampsa not said here | the little master | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before master=Location |
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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