The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 137
They tell us that these strangers are better than friends, that they are suitors and have come hither as wooers.”
Who acts: drops, strangers, suitors · What happens: tell, be, come · To what, where: us, suitors · 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 (drops, strangers, suitors), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 better | mark |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 strangers | det |
| 6 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 better | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | cop |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 tell | ccomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 friends | case |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 better | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 suitors | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 suitors | cop |
| 15 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 suitors | cc |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 tell | parataxis |
| 19 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 18 come | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 wooers | case |
| 21 | wooers | wooer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 come | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | drops = drop | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this strangers | than friends; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | drops = drop | suitors | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | suitors | as wooers; hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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