The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 124
“O thou magic branch of rowan, tell us truly, tell us quickly, who those are who come so swiftly—friends or foes who come so swiftly!” chanted Sakko, the dwarfish wise one.
Who acts: thou, magic branch, friends · What happens: branch, tell, be, come, chant · To what, where: us, Sakko · 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 (thou, magic branch, friends), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 branch | discourse |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 branch | nsubj |
| 4 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rowan | case |
| 7 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 branch | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 branch | punct |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tell | iobj |
| 11 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 9 tell | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tell | conj |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 tell | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 come | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 come | nsubj |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 come | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | cop |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 come | nsubj |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 swiftly | advmod |
| 23 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 21 come | advmod |
| 24 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 friends | punct |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 chanted | nsubj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 foes | cc |
| 27 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 friends | conj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 come | nsubj |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 friends | acl:relcl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 swiftly | advmod |
| 31 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 29 come | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 34 | chanted | chant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | parataxis |
| 35 | Sakko | Sakko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 chanted | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 one | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 38 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 39 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Sakko | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | branch in a quote | thou | of rowan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | magic branch | us | truly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | magic branch not said here | us | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | who nsubj; those nsubj; come, swiftly property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present | friends or foes | swiftly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | chant | past | friends or foes | Sakko | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sakko=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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