The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 98
“Omens of good fortune are written on my branches,” said the oak.
Who acts: oak · What happens: write, say, omen · To what, where: Omens, branches, good fortune · 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 (oak), 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 written | punct |
| 2 | Omens | omen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fortune | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fortune | amod |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Omens | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux:pass |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 branches | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 branches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 written | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oak | det |
| 15 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write in a quote | present · passive | Omens of good fortune | my branches | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on branch=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the oak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | omen in a quote | good fortune | nom omen «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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