The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 44
“But tell me, what fresh news do you bring from the Land of Heroes?”
Who acts: you, fresh news · What happens: tell, bring · To what, where: Dame, Land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, fresh news), 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 | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 bring | obj |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Land | det |
| 14 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Heroes | case |
| 16 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Land | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | Dame | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · do-support | fresh news | the Land of Heroes | what obj; you nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent what=Theme from land=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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