The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 88
“Good-morning, friendly oak tree!” said Sampsa; and a tremor of joy ran through every leaf and branch as the noble tree answered, “Good-morning, master!”
Who acts: Sampsa, tremor, noble tree, joy · What happens: say, run, answer, tremor · To what, where: leaf · 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 (Sampsa, tremor, noble tree, joy), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Sampsa | Sampsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tremor | det |
| 16 | tremor | tremor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 joy | case |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tremor | nmod |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 leaf | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 leaf | det |
| 22 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ran | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 branch | cc |
| 24 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leaf | conj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 answered | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 27 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tree | amod |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 answered | nsubj |
| 29 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ran | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 morning | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 morning | punct |
| 32 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 morning | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 Good | punct |
| 34 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 answered | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 master | punct |
| 36 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 morning | appos |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 master | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Sampsa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run | past | a tremor of joy | every leaf and branch | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the noble tree | morning | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tremor | joy | nom tremor «act intransitive»: of=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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