The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 28
“Who now will carry this Sampo out of its prison-house?” asked the Minstrel.
What happens: carry, ask · To what, where: Sampo, prison house, Minstrel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. 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 | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 carry | advmod |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Sampo | det |
| 7 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 prison | punct |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Minstrel | det |
| 18 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | future | this Sampo | cave's prison house | now | Who nsubj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sampo=Theme out house=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Minstrel | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent minstrel=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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