The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 35
“He must needs have strong teeth to eat it,” she muttered, “but it is good enough for him.”
Who acts: master, task, slice · What happens: have, eat, mutter, be · To what, where: strong teeth, slice · 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 (master, task, slice), 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 | _ | 14 muttered | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 muttered | ccomp |
| 6 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 teeth | acl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 muttered | nsubj |
| 14 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 good | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 good | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 good | cop |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 muttered | conj |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 20 good | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 good | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 muttered | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | must | master | strong teeth | needs nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | master not said here | slice | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | past | task | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | slice | for master; enough, good 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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