The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 77
“My trunk is not fit for such use,” said the pine tree, speaking loudly.
Who acts: trunk, pine tree · What happens: not be, say, speak · 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 (trunk, pine tree), 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 | _ | 6 fit | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 3 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fit | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fit | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fit | advmod |
| 6 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 use | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 use | amod |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fit | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fit | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 fit | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 speaking | punct |
| 17 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 18 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 17 speaking | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | My trunk | for such use; fit property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the pine tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | the pine tree not said here | loudly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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