The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 124
It whispered hopefully into the ear of the Smith: “Wait until my gifts have done their work.”
Who acts: honeybee, my, gifts · What happens: whisper, wait, do, gift, work · To what, where: ear, gifts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honeybee, my, gifts), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hopefully | hopefully | ADV | _ | 2 whispered | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 ear | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ear | det |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whispered | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Smith | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Smith | det |
| 9 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ear | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wait | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wait | punct |
| 12 | Wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispered | parataxis |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 done | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Wait | advcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 work | nmod:poss |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wait | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | honeybee | the ear of the Smith | hopefully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent into ear=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect · passive | my gifts | gifts's work obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | gift in a quote | my | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | work in a quote | gifts = gift | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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