The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 27
“Yes, my mistress,” answered the cook, “I will fill a basket for him with food good enough and wholesome enough for any such slave as he.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: answer, fill · To what, where: cook, basket · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 mistress | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cook | det |
| 10 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fill | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fill | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fill | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fill | aux |
| 15 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 basket | det |
| 17 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fill | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fill | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fill | obl |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fill | conj |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 good | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wholesome | cc |
| 25 | wholesome | wholesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 good | conj |
| 26 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 25 wholesome | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 slave | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 slave | det |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 slave | amod |
| 30 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wholesome | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 he | case |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 slave | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my mistress | the cook | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fill in a quote | future | my mistress = mistress | a basket | for mistress; with food | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent basket=Patient with food=Instrument |
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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