The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 25
“True! true!” croaked Sakko, the earth woman, from her snug corner beyond the hearth.
What happens: croak · To what, where: Sakko
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: 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 true | punct |
| 2 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 true | amod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 croaked | advcl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 7 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Sakko | Sakko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 croaked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 woman | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | compound |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sakko | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 corner | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 corner | nmod:poss |
| 16 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 corner | amod |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sakko | appos |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 20 hearth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hearth | det |
| 20 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 corner | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 croaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | croak | past | Sakko | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sakko=Theme |
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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