The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 31
“Wisest of smiths,” he said, “we are friends and brothers, and therefore we must not fall out and quarrel.
Who acts: Wisest, we · What happens: say, be, not fall out · To what, where: friends · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wisest, we), 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 | _ | 2 Wisest | punct |
| 2 | Wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 smiths | case |
| 4 | smiths | smith | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Wisest | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wisest | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wisest | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 friends | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 friends | cop |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brothers | cc |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 friends | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fall | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fall | cc |
| 18 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 22 fall | advmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fall | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fall | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 fall | advmod |
| 22 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | parataxis |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 fall | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 quarrel | cc |
| 25 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fall | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Wisest of smiths | Smith nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | we | friends and brothers | brothers conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not fall out in a quote | must | we | quarrel conj; therefore property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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