The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 57
Then, in a few words plainly spoken, she told her brother all that she had seen and heard that morning.
Who acts: Anniki · What happens: speak, tell, see, hear · To what, where: few words, brother · 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 (Anniki), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 told | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obl |
| 7 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 8 spoken | advmod |
| 8 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 seen | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 seen | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heard | cc |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | conj |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 morning | det |
| 22 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | a few words not said here | plainly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Anniki | Anniki's brother | a few words | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Anniki | all property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | Anniki not said here | morning | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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