The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 83
“O bee,” cried the busy Smith, “you are a cunning little bird, and you know some things better than I know them.
Who acts: bee, you · What happens: cry, be, know · To what, where: busy Smith, cunning little bird, things · 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 (bee, you), 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 | _ | 3 bee | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 bee | discourse |
| 3 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bee | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bee | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Smith | det |
| 8 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Smith | amod |
| 9 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bird | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 bird | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 bird | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bird | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 15 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 know | obj |
| 24 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 27 know | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 know | nsubj |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 better | advcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 know | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | bee | the busy Smith | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | a cunning little bird | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | you | some things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | bee | things = thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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