The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 23
“O little ship,” he said, “wherefore are you so crude, so rough, so ill-finished?
Who acts: Minstrel, you · What happens: say, be, finish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, you), 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 | _ | 4 ship | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 little | discourse |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ship | amod |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ship | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ship | 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 | _ | 15 crude | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 crude | punct |
| 11 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 crude | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 crude | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 crude | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 crude | advmod |
| 15 | crude | crude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rough | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rough | advmod |
| 18 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 crude | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 finished | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 finished | advmod |
| 21 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 finished | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ill | punct |
| 23 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 crude | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Minstrel | little ship ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | crude, wherefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | finish in a quote | participle | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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