The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 101
But I wish first to drive back to the end of the causeway and show you a wonderful tree that I saw standing there.”
Who acts: I, wonderful tree · What happens: wish, drive back, show, see, stand · To what, where: end, wonderful tree, you
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wonderful tree), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 wish | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 wish | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 drive | mark |
| 6 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 drive | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drive | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 causeway | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 causeway | det |
| 13 | causeway | causeway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 end | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 show | cc |
| 15 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 drive | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 show | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 show | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 saw | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tree | acl:relcl |
| 23 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 saw | xcomp |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 standing | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | first property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drive back not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | to the end of the causeway | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to end=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | show | infinitive | I not said here | a wonderful tree | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tree=Topic | |||
| 4 | see | past | I | a wonderful tree | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | a wonderful tree not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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