The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 34
“You are a foolish old man,” she said, “to think that I care for you or for all that you promise.
Who acts: You, foolish old man · What happens: be, say, think, care, promise · To what, where: foolish old man, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, foolish old man), 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 | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 man | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 care | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 care | nsubj |
| 18 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 care | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 promise | cc |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 promise | mark |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 promise | det:predet |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 promise | obj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 promise | nsubj |
| 26 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 care | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a foolish old man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a foolish old man | Maid nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | care in a quote | present | a foolish old man = man | for you | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | you | that | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=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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