The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 95
The whitest of bread and the yellowest of butter, cream cakes, nuts, and apples—who could ask for more than these?
Who acts: cream cakes · What happens: ask · To what, where: more, cream cakes
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 (cream cakes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whitest | det |
| 2 | whitest | white | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 cakes | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bread | case |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whitest | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 yellowest | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yellowest | det |
| 7 | yellowest | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 whitest | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 butter | case |
| 9 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yellowest | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cakes | punct |
| 11 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cakes | compound |
| 12 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nuts | punct |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cakes | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 apples | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 apples | cc |
| 17 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cakes | conj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ask | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ask | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ask | aux |
| 21 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cakes | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 more | case |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 ask | obj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 these | case |
| 25 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 more | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 cakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | could | cream cakes and nuts and apples | more than these | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Recipient |
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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