The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 29
Look before us, look behind us, and then tell us what you see.”
Who acts: you · What happens: look, tell, see · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 see | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | before us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before we=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | infinitive | you not said here | behind us | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | us | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | see | present | you | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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