The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 132
“They are not clear water!” said the Maid of Beauty.
Who acts: Sakko, clear water · What happens: not be, say · To what, where: clear water · 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 (Sakko, clear water), 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 | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 water | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 water | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 water | advmod |
| 5 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 water | amod |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 water | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Maid | det |
| 11 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Beauty | case |
| 13 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Maid | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | Sakko | clear water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | clear water | the Maid of Beauty nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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