The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 51
Then he answered curtly, “I am going around to the great north bay to fish for salmon.”
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: answer, go around, fish · To what, where: great north bay · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Minstrel), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | curtly | curtly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | around | around | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bay | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bay | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bay | amod |
| 14 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bay | amod |
| 15 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fish | mark |
| 17 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 salmon | case |
| 19 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fish | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Minstrel | then | curtly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go around in a quote | present · progressive | Minstrel | the great north bay | around property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bay=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | fish in a quote | to-infinitive | Minstrel not said here | for salmon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for salmon=Theme |
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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