The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 151
“Truly, my daughter,” said Dame Louhi, “it becomes us to give these heroes joy after their perilous journey.”
Who acts: daughter, stranger, ashes · What happens: say, become, give, journey · To what, where: us, heroes · 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 (daughter, stranger, ashes), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dame | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 becomes | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 becomes | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 becomes | nsubj |
| 14 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 becomes | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 becomes | xcomp |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 heroes | det |
| 19 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 journey | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 journey | nmod:poss |
| 23 | perilous | perilous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 journey | amod |
| 24 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my daughter | Dame nsubj; truly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | become in a quote | present | stranger | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | this heroes | after ashes's perilous journey | joy obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient joy=Theme | ||
| 4 | journey in a quote | ashes = ash | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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