The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 147
The last good-byes were spoken.
What happens: speak · To what, where: last good byes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 byes | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 byes | amod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 byes | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | byes | by | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoken | aux:pass |
| 7 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · passive | the last good byes | tree rules |
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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