The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 56
For three long days—yes, for four summer days—she tended him as though he were her son, and no questions did she ask.
Who acts: face, cock, questions · What happens: tend, be, ask · To what, where: cock, son
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: who acts (face, cock, questions), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tended | obl |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 6 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 days | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 9 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 days | nummod |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 days | compound |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 days | conj |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tended | nsubj |
| 14 | tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tended | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 tended | advmod |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 son | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 son | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 son | cop |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tended | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ask | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ask | cc |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 questions | det |
| 25 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ask | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ask | aux |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ask | nsubj |
| 28 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tended | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | past | face | cock | day | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | cock | face's son | face nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | no questions | face nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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