The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 110
“Welcome, welcome, daring brother!” cried the master Smith.
Who acts: master Smith · What happens: dare, cry · To what, where: brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master Smith), 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 daring | punct |
| 2 | Welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 6 daring | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Welcome | punct |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 6 daring | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daring | punct |
| 6 | daring | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cried | csubj |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daring | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 daring | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 daring | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Smith | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Smith | compound |
| 13 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare in a quote | gerund | brother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the master Smith | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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