The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 4
The last good-byes were spoken, the last words of counsel were delivered.
What happens: speak, deliver, word · To what, where: last good byes, last words, counsel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 byes | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 byes | amod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 byes | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 5 | byes | by | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoken | aux:pass |
| 7 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoken | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 words | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 counsel | case |
| 13 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 delivered | aux:pass |
| 15 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spoken | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · passive | the last good byes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | deliver | past · passive | the last words of counsel | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | word | counsel | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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