The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 116
“What news, my son?”
To what, where: news
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. 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 | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 news | nsubj |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 news | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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