The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 110
“Oh, my wise and truthful brother, tell me a story, two stories tell me!
Who acts: you, two stories · What happens: tell · To what, where: story, me · 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 (you, two stories), 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 | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brother | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 truthful | cc |
| 7 | truthful | truthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wise | conj |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tell | punct |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 stories | nummod |
| 16 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a story | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | two stories | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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