The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 59
“And now, brother,” she added, “why do you toil here in the smoke and the heat while your false friend is hurrying northward to rob you of the treasure that ought to be your own?”
Who acts: Anniki, you, false friend, treasure · What happens: add, toil, hurry, rob, be · To what, where: brother, smoke, 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 (Anniki, you, false friend, treasure), 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 | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brother | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brother | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 added | nsubj |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toil | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 toil | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 toil | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 toil | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 toil | nsubj |
| 15 | toil | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 added | ccomp |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 toil | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 smoke | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 smoke | det |
| 19 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 toil | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 heat | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heat | det |
| 22 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 smoke | conj |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 hurrying | mark |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 friend | nmod:poss |
| 25 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 friend | amod |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hurrying | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 hurrying | aux |
| 28 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 toil | advcl |
| 29 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 28 hurrying | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 rob | mark |
| 31 | rob | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 hurrying | xcomp |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 rob | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 treasure | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 treasure | det |
| 35 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rob | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 own | nsubj |
| 37 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 own | aux |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 own | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 own | cop |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 own | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: ask | past | Anniki | brother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | toil in a quote | present · do-support | you | the smoke and the heat; here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in smoke=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hurry in a quote | present · progressive | your false friend | northward property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rob in a quote | to-infinitive | your false friend not said here | you | of the treasure | vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme of treasure=Source | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | ought | the treasure | your nmod:poss; own property | 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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