The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 81
“That I will do, father,” answered the young man; and with a basket on his arm and a glad song rising from his lips, he hastened away.
Who acts: That, young man, glad song, man · What happens: do, answer, rise, hasten away · To what, where: father, lips · 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 (That, young man, glad song, 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 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 father | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 hastened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hastened | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 basket | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 basket | det |
| 18 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hastened | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 arm | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 arm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 basket | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 song | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 song | det |
| 24 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 song | amod |
| 25 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 basket | conj |
| 26 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 song | acl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 lips | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lips | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rising | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 basket | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hastened | nsubj |
| 32 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 hastened | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | That | father | I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | a glad song not said here | man's lips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hasten away | past | man | with a basket on man's arm and a glad song; away property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with basket=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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