The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 13
“But why does he blow so loudly?” said Anniki, holding her head.
Who acts: boy, Anniki · What happens: blow, say, hold · To what, where: head · 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 (boy, Anniki), 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 blow | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 blow | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 blow | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blow | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 blow | nsubj |
| 6 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 loudly | advmod |
| 8 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 6 blow | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 blow | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow in a quote | present · do-support | boy | loudly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Anniki | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | Anniki not said here | Anniki's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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