The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 43
And the young man added, “Come in and let us see what can be done.”
Who acts: young man, us · What happens: add, come in, let, see, do · 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 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 (young man, us), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 added | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | nsubj |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 8 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 added | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 Come | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Come | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 done | obj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | the young man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | can · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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