The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 77
“Well then, my daughter,” said good Dame Lokka, “it is for you to make the bath house ready.
Who acts: daughter, bath · What happens: say, be, make · To what, where: bath house · 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 (daughter, bath), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Dame | amod |
| 11 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Dame | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 you | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 you | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 you | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 you | cop |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 22 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 house | compound |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 make | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my daughter | then | good Dame nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | bath | for you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | my daughter not said here | the bath house | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product |
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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