The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 29
“Who are these people, and what do they mean by their strange actions?”
Who acts: people · What happens: be, mean, act · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 people | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 people | cop |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mean | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mean | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 mean | obj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mean | aux |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 people | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 actions | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 actions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 actions | amod |
| 15 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mean | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this people | Who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | people | this people | by people's strange actions | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||
| 3 | act in a quote | people | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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