The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 10

Then suddenly up spoke a little child who was sitting on the floor—a little child too young to walk, too small to know the meaning of his words:

Who acts: little child, child · What happens: speak, sit, walk, know, mean, word · To what, where: little child, floor, meaning, words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little child, child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoke	advmod
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 up	advmod
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sitting	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sitting	aux
10	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 child	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sitting	obl
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	17 child	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	obl
18	too	too	ADV	_	19 young	advmod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 child	amod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 walk	mark
21	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 young	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 small	punct
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 small	advmod
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 young	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 know	mark
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 small	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 meaning	det
28	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 know	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 words	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 words	nmod:poss
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 meaning	nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past		a little child		then	a little child obl	tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	a little child		the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
3	walk	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	to-infinitive		the meaning of child's words				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus
5	mean			child's words				nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	word		child					nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 10