The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 57
But he does not come, he does not come!” and with that it began again to cry and lament in tones of impatience and grief.
Who acts: wizard, master · What happens: not come, begin, cry, lament, intonate · To what, where: tones, impatience
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: who acts (wizard, master), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 come | advmod |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | parataxis |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 began | mark |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 began | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 began | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cry | mark |
| 20 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lament | cc |
| 22 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 cry | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tones | case |
| 24 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lament | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 impatience | case |
| 26 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tones | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grief | cc |
| 28 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 impatience | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | present · do-support | wizard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not come | present · do-support | wizard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | past | master | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | to-infinitive | master not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lament in a quote | infinitive | master not said here | tones of impatience and grief | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | intonate in a quote | impatience and grief | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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