The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 63
“Here, my dearest brother, are the shoes, the gloves, and the slender spear—the best that were ever made,” said the Smith.
Who acts: shoes, Smith · What happens: be, make, say · To what, where: that · 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 (shoes, 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 said | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brother | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shoes | det |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gloves | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gloves | det |
| 13 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shoes | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spear | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spear | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spear | det |
| 17 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spear | amod |
| 18 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 best | det |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 made | obl |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 made | advmod |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 best | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Smith | det |
| 30 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 said | nsubj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the shoes and the gloves | the slender spear obl; my dearest brother appos; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past · passive | that | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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