The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 25
I know a hundred—yes, I have a thousand which I caught as they fell from the tongue of Wipunen, the mighty master.
Who acts: I, words · What happens: know, have, catch, fall · To what, where: hundred, thousand, tongue
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 (I, words), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 have | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thousand | det |
| 11 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 have | obl |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 caught | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thousand | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 fell | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 tongue | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tongue | det |
| 20 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Wipunen | case |
| 22 | Wipunen | Wipunen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tongue | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 master | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 master | det |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 master | amod |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Wipunen | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | a hundred | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hundred=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | a thousand | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | I | which obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | words = word | the tongue of Wipunen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tongue=Initial_Location |
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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