The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 32
“He will enjoy that when he comes to it,” laughed the wicked wench, holding her sides and grinning with mirth.
Who acts: hill · What happens: enjoy, come, laugh, hold, grin · To what, where: sandstone, wicked wench, sides · 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 (hill), 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 | _ | 4 enjoy | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enjoy | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoy | aux |
| 4 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 laughed | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 comes | mark |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 comes | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 enjoy | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 enjoy | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 enjoy | punct |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wench | det |
| 15 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wench | amod |
| 16 | wench | wench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 holding | punct |
| 18 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 laughed | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sides | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 holding | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grinning | cc |
| 22 | grinning | grin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 holding | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 mirth | case |
| 24 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grinning | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy in a quote | future | hill | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | hill | sandstone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | the wicked wench | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hold | gerund | task's sides | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grin | gerund | with mirth | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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