The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 31
“A kiss, dear sister.”
To what, where: dear sister
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 kiss | det |
| 3 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 kiss | punct |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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