The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 16
He sent him into the garden to pull up weeds; but the worthless fellow destroyed the useful plants and flowers and left the weeds untouched.
Who acts: slave, worthless fellow · What happens: send, pull up, destroy, leave · To what, where: boy, garden, weeds, useful plants
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, worthless fellow), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pull | mark |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pull | compound:prt |
| 10 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pull | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 destroyed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 destroyed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fellow | det |
| 14 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fellow | amod |
| 15 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 destroyed | nsubj |
| 16 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plants | det |
| 18 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plants | amod |
| 19 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 destroyed | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 flowers | cc |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 plants | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 left | cc |
| 23 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 destroyed | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 weeds | det |
| 25 | weeds | weed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 left | obj |
| 26 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 left | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | slave | boy | the garden | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull up | to-infinitive | slave not said here | weeds | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past | the worthless fellow | the useful plants and flowers | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | the worthless fellow not said here | the weeds | untouched property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Theme |
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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