The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 108

“Caw! caw!” cried the one in the pine.

Who acts: Caw · What happens: cry · To what, where: one, pine

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caw), 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	_	2 Caw	punct
2	Caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Caw	punct
4	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Caw	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Caw	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Caw	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pine	det
12	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Caw and caw	the one		the pine			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 108