The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 113
“Try the rowan branch,” she repeated.
Who acts: guest · What happens: try, repeat · To what, where: rowan branch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest), 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 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 repeated | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 4 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 branch | compound |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Try | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 repeated | nsubj |
| 9 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | infinitive | guest not said here | the rowan branch | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | guest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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