The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 121
But you—you are young and nimble, strong and supple, and spry as a squirrel when the nuts are ripening.
Who acts: you, nuts · What happens: be, ripen
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, nuts), 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 | _ | 6 young | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 young | nsubj |
| 3 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 you | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 young | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 young | cop |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nimble | cc |
| 8 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 young | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 strong | punct |
| 10 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 young | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 supple | cc |
| 12 | supple | supple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strong | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spry | cc |
| 15 | spry | spry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 young | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 squirrel | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 squirrel | det |
| 18 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spry | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 ripening | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nuts | det |
| 21 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ripening | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ripening | aux |
| 23 | ripening | ripen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 spry | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | as a squirrel | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ripen | present · progressive | the nuts | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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