The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 102
“I will go with you willingly, gladly,” answered the Smith, “but I know every tree in the forest and the fen, and I call none of them wonderful.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: go, answer, know, call · To what, where: tree, forest, none · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Smith), 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 | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gladly | punct |
| 9 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Smith | det |
| 14 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fen | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fen | det |
| 27 | fen | fen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forest | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 call | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 call | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 call | nsubj |
| 31 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | conj |
| 32 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 31 call | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 none | nmod |
| 35 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 call | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | the Smith = smith | with you; gladly, willingly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Smith | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the Smith = smith | every tree | the forest and the fen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | call in a quote | present | the Smith = smith | none of tools | wonderful property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent none=Recipient |
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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