The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 62
“You shall know him as you know an oak among the willows, as you know the moon among the tiny stars,” answered the Mistress.
Who acts: You, Mistress · What happens: know, answer · To what, where: bridegroom, oak, moon · 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, Mistress), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 oak | det |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 willows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 willows | det |
| 13 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 know | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moon | det |
| 19 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 stars | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stars | det |
| 22 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stars | amod |
| 23 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 know | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 26 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Mistress | det |
| 28 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 answered | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | shall | You | bridegroom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | a oak | among the willows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | the moon | among the tiny stars | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the Mistress | tree rules |
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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