The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 33
“See these ribbons that I have just cleaned.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, clean · To what, where: ribbons
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 (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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 ribbons | det |
| 4 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 See | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 cleaned | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cleaned | aux |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 cleaned | advmod |
| 9 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ribbons | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this ribbons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ribbon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | clean in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this ribbons | I nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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