The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 141
“Three women are in this house,” she said, “and one of them is she whom the strangers seek.
Who acts: Three women, Woman, one, strangers · What happens: be, say, seek · To what, where: house · 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 (Three women, Woman, one, strangers), 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 | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 house | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 house | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 whom | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 whom | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whom | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 whom | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 whom | cop |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 whom | nsubj |
| 20 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 seek | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 strangers | det |
| 22 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seek | nsubj |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Three women | this house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | one of sound | Woman nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | present | the strangers | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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