The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 39
“It is fresh and hot, and far too good for such as you; keep the green leaves over it till you’re ready to eat, for the flies are many and very bad to-day.”
Who acts: luncheon, you · What happens: be, keep, eat · To what, where: green leaves, luncheon
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 (luncheon, you), 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 fresh | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fresh | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fresh | cop |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hot | cc |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 good | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 good | cc |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 good | advmod |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 you | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 good | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 keep | punct |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leaves | det |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leaves | amod |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 keep | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 ’re | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ’re | nsubj |
| 25 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | advcl |
| 26 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ’re | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ready | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 many | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 flies | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 flies | det |
| 32 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 many | obl |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 many | cop |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eat | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bad | cc |
| 36 | very | very | ADV | _ | 37 bad | advmod |
| 37 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 many | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 day | case |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 to | punct |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bad | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | luncheon | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | luncheon not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | the green leaves | luncheon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme over it=Location | ||||
| 4 | does in a quote | present | you | ready property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | for the flies; many property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | day | 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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