The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 118
“Yes, let us try the rowan branch,” said the Mistress, anxious, uneasy, trembling with alarm.
Who acts: us, Mistress · What happens: let, try, say, tremble · To what, where: us, 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 (us, Mistress), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 branch | det |
| 8 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 branch | compound |
| 9 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mistress | det |
| 14 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 anxious | punct |
| 16 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Mistress | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 uneasy | punct |
| 18 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anxious | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 trembling | punct |
| 20 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 alarm | case |
| 22 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trembling | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the rowan branch | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | the Mistress not said here | with alarm | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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