The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 32
“Perhaps he comes to claim his wages that are due him,” modestly answered the dutiful daughter.
Who acts: stranger, that, dutiful daughter · What happens: come, claim, be, answer · To what, where: wages · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, that, dutiful daughter), 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 comes | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 claim | mark |
| 6 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 comes | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wages | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 claim | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 due | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 due | cop |
| 11 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 wages | amod |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 due | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 15 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 16 answered | advmod |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 daughter | det |
| 18 | dutiful | dutiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 daughter | amod |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 answered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | stranger | perhaps property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | claim speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | stranger's wages | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wage=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | stranger nsubj; due property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the dutiful daughter | modestly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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