The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 22
“Surely, never have I heard an infant speak in this way.”
Who acts: eagle · What happens: not have, hear · To what, where: infant speak, way · 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 (eagle), 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 | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Surely | punct |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | ccomp |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 speak | det |
| 9 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speak | amod |
| 10 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | surely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | eagle | a infant speak | this way | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus |
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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