The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 50
“Is this a hostile army coming to attack me?
Who acts: this, hostile army · What happens: be, come, attack · To what, where: hostile army, messengers
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 (this, hostile army), 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 | _ | 6 army | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 army | cop |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 army | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 5 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 army | amod |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 army | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 attack | mark |
| 9 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 coming | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 attack | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 army | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | a hostile army | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | a hostile army not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attack in a quote | to-infinitive | a hostile army not said here | messengers = messenger | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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