The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 79
“Well, then,” answered the long-armed, thoughtless one, “I, at least, feel like rejoicing this very hour.
Who acts: long armed thoughtless one, I · What happens: answer, feel, rejoice · To what, where: least · 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: who acts (long armed thoughtless one, I), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | punct |
| 11 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 armed | punct |
| 13 | thoughtless | thoughtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 least | case |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 feel | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 least | punct |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 23 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 24 rejoicing | mark |
| 24 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 feel | advcl |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 hour | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 hour | advmod |
| 27 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rejoicing | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the long armed thoughtless one | then | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | infinitive | I | least | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at least=Location | ||||
| 3 | rejoice in a quote | gerund | I not said here | hour | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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