The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Great Pike, sentence 4
“Is this the young man who went out to plough our field?”
Who acts: this, young man · What happens: be, go out, plough · To what, where: young man, field
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Great Pike. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, young man), 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 | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 man | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 plough | mark |
| 11 | plough | plough | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 went | advcl |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 field | nmod:poss |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plough | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | the young man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | past | the young man | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | plough in a quote | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | our field | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location |
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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