The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 50
Ah, the sad plight of the poor man!
What happens: plight · To what, where: sad plight, poor man
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 plight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plight | det |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plight | amod |
| 5 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plight | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 plight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | plight | the poor man | nom plight «state transitive»: of=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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