The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 16
Think you he yielded much meat for the feast, much food for the hungry?
Who acts: you, bull · What happens: think, yield · To what, where: you, much meat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bull), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Think | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 yielded | nsubj |
| 4 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | ccomp |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 meat | amod |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yielded | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 feast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yielded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 food | punct |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feast | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 hungry | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hungry | det |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | yield | past | bull | much meat | for the feast and much food for the hungry goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent meat=Theme for feast=Goal |
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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