The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 50
Here is Brown Bossy, patiently waiting to give a cup of milk to Anniki.
What happens: be, wait, give · To what, where: cup, Anniki
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: 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Bossy | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Bossy | cop |
| 3 | Brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bossy | amod |
| 4 | Bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waiting | punct |
| 6 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 7 waiting | advmod |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Bossy | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 waiting | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cup | det |
| 11 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 milk | case |
| 13 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cup | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Anniki | case |
| 15 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Bossy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | here | bossy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | patiently property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | a cup of milk | Anniki | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cup=Theme to anniki=Recipient |
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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