The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 62
“I want to play with my dolly; I want to put her to sleep.
Who acts: Kuli · What happens: want, play, put, sleep · To what, where: Kuli
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 (Kuli), 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 dolly | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dolly | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dolly | dolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 play | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 want | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 want | nsubj |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 want | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 put | mark |
| 13 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 put | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 put | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Kuli | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Kuli not said here | with my dolly | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dolly=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | Kuli | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Kuli not said here | Kuli | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | ||||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | to-infinitive | Kuli not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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