The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 21
And so, one day when Ilmarinen was far away, she said to the mother, “I have a mind to send Kullervo out with the cattle.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: be, say, have, send out · To what, where: mother, mind, Kullervo · 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 (Ilmarinen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 away | mark |
| 7 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 away | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 away | cop |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 day | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mother | det |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mind | det |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 send | mark |
| 24 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 mind | acl |
| 25 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 send | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 send | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 cattle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cattle | det |
| 29 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 send | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ilmarinen | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | the mother | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Ilmarinen | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | send out in a quote | to-infinitive | Ilmarinen not said here | Kullervo | with the cattle; out property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kullervo=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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