The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 66
Wheresoever I go I am still a miserable slave and hard tasks are set for me to do.
Who acts: I, hard tasks · What happens: go, be, do · To what, where: miserable slave
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 (I, hard tasks), 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 | Wheresoever | wheresoever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 slave | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 slave | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 slave | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slave | det |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slave | amod |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tasks | amod |
| 12 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | cop |
| 14 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | wheresoever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | a miserable slave | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | hard tasks | for me; set property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | hard tasks not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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