The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 59
“Speak then, most honored friend, and I will listen,” said the cunning Mistress.
Who acts: cunning Mistress · What happens: speak, honor, listen, say · 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 (cunning Mistress), 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 | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 2 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Speak | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 honored | advmod |
| 6 | honored | honor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Speak | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 listen | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 listen | aux |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Speak | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Speak | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mistress | det |
| 17 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Mistress | amod |
| 18 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | then | honored friend conj | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | honor in a quote | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | listen in a quote | future | the cunning Mistress = mistress | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the cunning Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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