The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 8
Now among the servants of the hero there was a young slave whose name was Kullervo.
Who acts: young slave, name, Kullervo · What happens: be, name · To what, where: servants, Kullervo
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 (young slave, name, Kullervo), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 was | advmod |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 4 servants | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 was | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hero | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 servants | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 slave | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 slave | amod |
| 12 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Kullervo | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Kullervo | cop |
| 16 | Kullervo | Kullervo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 slave | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a young slave | the servants of the hero; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among servant=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Kullervo's name | Kullervo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Kullervo | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/29/8/