The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 25

Forthwith the wife and mistress called to the old cook, the kitchen wench, and said, “The new slave, Kullervo, is to go with the cattle to-day.

What happens: call, say, be · To what, where: mistress, old 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: 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	Forthwith	forthwith	ADP	_	3 wife	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wife	det
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 mistress	cc
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wife	conj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mistress	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 cook	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cook	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cook	amod
10	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wench	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wench	det
13	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wench	compound
14	wench	wench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wife	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wife	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 slave	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 slave	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 slave	det
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 slave	amod
22	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Kullervo	punct
24	Kullervo	Kullervo	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 slave	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wife	punct
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 go	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 cattle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cattle	det
31	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 day	case
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 to	punct
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 go	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	mistress not said here	the old cook			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cook=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past				the new slave ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present			day	forthwith the wife and mistress and the kitchen wench; with the cattle; go 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 25