The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 149

“Seek the old cook in the kitchen and remind her of her cake,” he muttered to still another.

Who acts: you, mistress · What happens: seek, remind, mutter · To what, where: old cook, kitchen, cook · 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 (you, mistress), 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 Seek	punct
2	Seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cook	amod
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Seek	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 kitchen	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kitchen	det
8	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Seek	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 remind	cc
10	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Seek	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remind	iobj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cake	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 cake	nmod:poss
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remind	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Seek	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Seek	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 muttered	nsubj
18	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Seek	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	21 another	mark
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 another	advmod
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 muttered	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the old cook		the kitchen		tree rules
2	remind speech: other in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		cook		of cook's cake	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of cake=Topic
3	mutter speech: assert	past	mistress					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 149

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 149