The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 36
Surely the slave boy knows where to find the best pastures for the herd.”
Who acts: slave boy · What happens: know, find · To what, where: best pastures · 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), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 5 knows | advmod |
| 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 | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 find | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knows | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pastures | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 pastures | amod |
| 11 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 herd | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 herd | det |
| 14 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | the slave boy | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | the best pastures | for the herd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pasture=Theme for herd=Beneficiary |
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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