The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 74
“I know what is in your mind, and everything shall be done as you desire;” and then with hasty steps, smiling and proud, she ran out of the smithy and hurried to her mother’s house in the village.
Who acts: brother, you, I, Anniki · What happens: know, be, do, desire, smile, run · To what, where: mind, everything, smithy, village · 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 (brother, you, I, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 ran | ccomp |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 mind | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mind | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mind | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 done | aux:pass |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 know | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 desire | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 desire | nsubj |
| 17 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 steps | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 steps | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 steps | case |
| 23 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 steps | amod |
| 24 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 know | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 smiling | punct |
| 26 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 steps | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 proud | cc |
| 28 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 steps | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 smithy | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 smithy | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 smithy | det |
| 35 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hurried | cc |
| 37 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 ran | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 house | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 house | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 mother | case |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hurried | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 village | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 village | det |
| 45 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hurried | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | brother | hasty steps conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your mind | what nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall · passive | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | smile | gerund | I not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | run | past | Anniki | the smithy | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hurry | past | Anniki not said here | the village | to Anniki's mother's house | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination |
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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