The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 62
“Kindle the fattest knot of pine and fetch it hither blazing,” she said.
What happens: fetch, blaze, say · To what, where: pine · 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: 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 Kindle | punct |
| 2 | Kindle | Kindle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knot | det |
| 4 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 knot | amod |
| 5 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Kindle | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pine | case |
| 7 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knot | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fetch | cc |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Kindle | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fetch | obj |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 12 blazing | advmod |
| 12 | blazing | blaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fetch | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fetch | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kindle | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch in a quote | present | pine | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blaze in a quote | gerund | hither property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Kindle nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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