The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 155
It was the signal by which the mistress and her milkmaids would know that the cows had been brought home and were ready for the milking.
Who acts: whistle, mistress · What happens: be, know, bring · To what, where: signal, cows · 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 (whistle, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 signal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 signal | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 signal | det |
| 4 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 know | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mistress | det |
| 8 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 milkmaids | cc |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 milkmaids | nmod:poss |
| 11 | milkmaids | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mistress | conj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 signal | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 brought | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cows | det |
| 16 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 brought | aux:pass |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 know | ccomp |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 brought | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ready | cc |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ready | cop |
| 23 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 brought | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 milking | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 milking | det |
| 26 | milking | milking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ready | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 signal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | whistle | the signal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | would | the mistress and cook's milkmaids | by the signal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the cows | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | past | for the milking; ready property | tree rules |
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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