The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 127
“Ah, me! there is no hope!” said the Smith, despairing utterly; and he lifted the image from its resting place.
Who acts: hope, Smith · What happens: be, say, despair, lift · To what, where: image, resting place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, Smith), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 7 is | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Ah | iobj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 hope | det |
| 9 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Smith | det |
| 14 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 despairing | punct |
| 16 | despairing | despair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 17 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 16 despairing | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 lifted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lifted | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 lifted | nsubj |
| 21 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 image | det |
| 23 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lifted | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 place | compound |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lifted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no hope | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | despair | gerund | the Smith not said here | utterly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lift | past | Smith | the image | hope's resting place | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent image=Theme from place=Destination |
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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