The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 151
“No thanks are due to me,” said the old man, leading him to a seat by the fireside.
Who acts: thanks, old man · What happens: be, say, lead · To what, where: old man, man, seat · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (thanks, old man), 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 | _ | 5 due | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 thanks | det |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 due | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 due | cop |
| 5 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 due | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 due | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 due | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leading | punct |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 leading | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 seat | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 seat | det |
| 19 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 fireside | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fireside | det |
| 22 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | no thanks | the old man = man | due property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | the old man not said here | man | a seat | by the fireside | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to seat=Destination |
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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