The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 38
“I must earn something to feed our children, to clothe them, to keep them neat.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: earn, feed, clothe, keep · To what, where: something, children
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 (Woman), 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 | _ | 4 earn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 earn | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 earn | aux |
| 4 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 earn | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 feed | mark |
| 7 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 something | acl |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 feed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clothe | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 clothe | mark |
| 12 | clothe | clothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 earn | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 clothe | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 earn | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | earn in a quote | must | Woman | something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed in a quote | to-infinitive | Woman not said here | something not said here | our children | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | |||
| 3 | clothe in a quote | to-infinitive | Woman not said here | children = child | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | Woman not said here | children = child | neat property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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