The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 115
“How fortunate you are!” said the master Smith, “and your good fortune shall be ours also; for I know that we shall soon hear some wonderful new songs from your lips.
Who acts: you, good fortune, I, we · What happens: be, say, know, hear · To what, where: ours, wonderful new songs, lips · 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 (you, good fortune, I, we), 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 | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 fortunate | advmod |
| 3 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fortunate | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fortunate | cop |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fortunate | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Smith | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Smith | compound |
| 11 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ours | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 ours | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ours | cc |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fortune | amod |
| 17 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ours | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 ours | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ours | cop |
| 20 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Smith | nmod |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 ours | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 know | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 know | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 hear | mark |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 hear | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 hear | aux |
| 29 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 hear | advmod |
| 30 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 know | ccomp |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 songs | det |
| 32 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 songs | amod |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 songs | amod |
| 34 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 hear | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 lips | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 lips | nmod:poss |
| 37 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 songs | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the master Smith ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | shall | your good fortune | ours | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | shall | we | some wonderful new songs | your lips | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent song=Topic from lip=Source |
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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