The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 26
Make haste and put up a luncheon for him—something that will stay his hunger in the middle of the day, for he will be far from home and the noon sun is hot in the lonely hill pastures.”
Who acts: you, slave, noon sun · What happens: make, put up, stay, be, hunger · To what, where: haste, luncheon, hunger, middle, home, lonely hill pastures
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, slave, noon sun), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 put | cc |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 haste | conj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 luncheon | det |
| 7 | luncheon | luncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 luncheon | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 something | punct |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 haste | appos |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stay | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stay | aux |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 middle | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 home | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 home | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 home | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 home | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 home | cop |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 home | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 home | case |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hot | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun | det |
| 33 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sun | compound |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hot | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 hot | cop |
| 36 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 home | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 pastures | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 pastures | det |
| 39 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pastures | amod |
| 40 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pastures | compound |
| 41 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hot | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | ||||
| 2 | put up | participle | you not said here | a luncheon | for slave | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent luncheon=Goal | |||
| 3 | stay | future | slave's hunger | the middle of the day | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hunger=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | future | slave | home | far property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | the noon sun | the lonely hill pastures | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | hunger | slave | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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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