The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 85
Take the fine cake from the basket where the old cook so kindly placed it.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, place · To what, where: fine cake, basket, cake
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cake | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cake | amod |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 basket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 cook | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cook | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cook | amod |
| 11 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 basket | nmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 placed | advmod |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 14 placed | advmod |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Take | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 placed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | the fine cake | the basket the old cook | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cake=Theme from basket=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | place | participle | you not said here | cake | kindly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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