The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 28
“Now, tell me, my young brother, where have you been since you departed from Wainola and the Land of Heroes?
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, have, depart · To what, where: young brother, Minstrel, Wainola · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tell | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 have | advmod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 have | xcomp |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 departed | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 departed | nsubj |
| 17 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Wainola | case |
| 19 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 departed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Land | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Land | det |
| 22 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Wainola | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Heroes | case |
| 24 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Land | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | my young brother | the Minstrel = minstrel | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | depart in a quote | past | you | Wainola and the Land of Heroes | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wainola=Initial_Location |
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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