The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 42
“Friend and brother,” he said, breathing fast with eagerness, “I have come to ask your help.
Who acts: Friend, your · What happens: say, breathe, come, ask, help · To what, where: help · 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 (Friend, your), 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 | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 2 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 brother | cc |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Friend | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Friend | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breathing | punct |
| 10 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 breathing | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eagerness | case |
| 13 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | advcl |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 help | nmod:poss |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ask | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Friend and brother | Minstrel nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | breathe | gerund | Friend and brother not said here | with eagerness; fast property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | Friend and brother = friend | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | Friend and brother = friend not said here | your help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | help in a quote | your | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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