The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 130
“Who are you, lone fisherman?
What happens: be · To what, where: lone fisherman
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. 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 | _ | 7 fisherman | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fisherman | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fisherman | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fisherman | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fisherman | punct |
| 6 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fisherman | amod |
| 7 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fisherman | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | lone fisherman | Who nsubj; you nsubj | 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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