The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 28
All this and more did these kind people do for the returning hero—gave him rest and quiet, asking no questions, saying nothing, suffering no one to disturb him.
Who acts: kind people · What happens: do, return, give, rest, ask, say · To what, where: stranger, questions, nothing, one, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 this | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 more | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 this | obj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 more | advcl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 people | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | parataxis |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hero | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hero | det |
| 12 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 hero | amod |
| 13 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gave | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 quiet | cc |
| 19 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rest | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asking | punct |
| 21 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gave | advcl |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 questions | det |
| 23 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 asking | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saying | punct |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 asking | conj |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 saying | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 suffering | punct |
| 28 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 asking | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 one | det |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 suffering | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 disturb | mark |
| 32 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 suffering | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 disturb | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | this kind people | for the returning hero | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | this kind people not said here | stranger | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rest | infinitive | this kind people not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | gerund | this kind people not said here | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | this kind people not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 8 | suffer | gerund | this kind people not said here | no one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | disturb | to-infinitive | this kind people not said here | stranger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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