The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 59
What will become of me after I have made friends with Fire?”
Who acts: I · What happens: become, make · To what, where: made friends
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 (I), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 become | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 become | aux |
| 3 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 become | obl |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 friends | amod |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 become | xcomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Fire | case |
| 12 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 friends | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | future | made friends with Fire | of me; What nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | present · perfect | I | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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