The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 82
“Alas! this is all that I can recover for my poor country, my ruined people!” she screamed.
What happens: recover, ruin, be · 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: 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 | _ | 22 screamed | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 22 screamed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 screamed | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 screamed | cop |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 screamed | det:predet |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 recover | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 recover | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 recover | aux |
| 10 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 all | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recover | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 people | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 country | appos |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 people | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 screamed | nsubj |
| 22 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover in a quote | can | for my poor country; I nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ruin in a quote | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | be speech: express | present | this nsubj; Pohyola nsubj; scream property | tree rules |
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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