The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 28
“It concerns you, and the Maid of Beauty, and the Frozen Land, and the Sampo, and, and—Well, wouldn’t you like to know what it is?”
Who acts: secret, you · What happens: concern, not like, know, be · To what, where: you · 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: who acts (secret, 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 | _ | 3 concerns | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 concerns | nsubj |
| 3 | concerns | concern | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 concerns | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Maid | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Maid | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maid | det |
| 8 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 concerns | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Beauty | case |
| 10 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maid | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Land | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Land | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Land | det |
| 14 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Land | compound |
| 15 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 concerns | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sampo | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Sampo | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sampo | det |
| 19 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 concerns | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 like | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 like | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 like | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 like | cc |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 25 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 30 like | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Well | punct |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 like | aux |
| 28 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 like | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 like | nsubj |
| 30 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 concerns | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 know | mark |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 like | xcomp |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 know | ccomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 what | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 what | cop |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 concerns | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 concerns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern in a quote | present | secret | you | the Maid of Beauty obl; the Sampo obl; the Frozen Land conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not like in a quote | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | secret | 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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