The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 11
“The slave boy has tended the cows well, I hope,” said Dame Lokka.
Who acts: slave boy, Dame · What happens: tend, hope, say · To what, where: cows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slave boy, Dame), 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 | _ | 6 tended | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | compound |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tended | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tended | aux |
| 6 | tended | tend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cows | det |
| 8 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tended | obj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 tended | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 hope | nsubj |
| 12 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tended | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hope | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 tended | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 17 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dame | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend in a quote | present · perfect | the slave boy | the cows | well property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | |||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present | Dame | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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