The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 32
“Oh, this is our wash day,” laughed Anniki, and she danced in the water until the white bubbles floated all around her.
Who acts: this, Anniki, white bubbles · What happens: be, laugh, dance, float · To what, where: wash day, Anniki, water
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Anniki, white bubbles), 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 | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 day | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 day | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 day | cop |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 day | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 day | punct |
| 11 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 laughed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 danced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 danced | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 danced | nsubj |
| 16 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laughed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 danced | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 floated | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bubbles | det |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bubbles | amod |
| 23 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 floated | nsubj |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 danced | advcl |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 27 her | advmod |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 floated | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | our wash day | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | Anniki | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anniki=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dance | past | Anniki | the water | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | ||||
| 4 | float | past | the white bubbles | around Anniki | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Trajectory |
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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