The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 89
He picked the oak leaves from the basket and took the round, buttered cake in his hands.
Who acts: Kullervo, oak · What happens: pick, leave, take, butter · To what, where: basket, round buttered cake, hands
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 (Kullervo, oak), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oak | det |
| 4 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leaves | nsubj |
| 5 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 basket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 basket | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cake | det |
| 12 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cake | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 round | punct |
| 14 | buttered | butter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cake | amod |
| 15 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | Kullervo | the basket | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | the oak | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Kullervo not said here | the round buttered cake | Kullervo's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cake=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | butter | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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