The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 117
Caw! caw! caw!”
To what, where: Caw caw
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: 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 | Caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caw | compound |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Caw | punct |
| 3 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 caw | punct |
| 5 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caw | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 caw | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 caw | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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