The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 22
“See those fishermen,” said one.
What happens: see, say · To what, where: fishermen, one · 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: 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 | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 2 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fishermen | det |
| 4 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 See | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 See | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | infinitive | that fishermen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fisherman=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | tree rules |
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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