The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 47
Fearfully screamed the fierce gyrfalcon, the transformed Wise Woman, as she answered, “No, I will not divide the Sampo with you.
Who acts: Woman · What happens: scream, transform, answer, not divide · To what, where: fierce gyrfalcon, Sampo · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woman), 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 | Fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 2 screamed | advmod |
| 2 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gyrfalcon | det |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gyrfalcon | amod |
| 5 | gyrfalcon | gyrfalcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Woman | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Woman | det |
| 8 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Woman | amod |
| 9 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Woman | amod |
| 10 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gyrfalcon | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 answered | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 screamed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 divide | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 divide | punct |
| 17 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 divide | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 No | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 divide | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 divide | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 divide | advmod |
| 22 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sampo | det |
| 24 | Sampo | Sampo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 divide | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 divide | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the fierce gyrfalcon | fearfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gyrfalcon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | transform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Woman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not divide in a quote | future | Woman | the Sampo | with you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sampo=Patient with you=Instrument |
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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