The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 115
“If he is wise he will pay them well for their cruel jest,” cawed the one in the oak.
Who acts: slave, stones · What happens: be, pay, caw, jest · To what, where: stones, one, oak · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (slave, stones), 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 | _ | 17 cawed | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wise | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wise | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wise | cop |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cawed | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pay | aux |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wise | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | obj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 pay | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 jest | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 jest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jest | amod |
| 14 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wise | punct |
| 17 | cawed | caw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cawed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 oak | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 oak | det |
| 22 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | slave | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay in a quote | future | slave | stones = stone | for stones's cruel jest; well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Asset for jest=Theme | |||
| 3 | caw | past | the one | the oak | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jest in a quote | stones = stone | nom jest «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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