The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 31
At length the Smith made out to stammer, “Tell me, my brother, where have you been these many months?”
Who acts: Smith, you · What happens: make out, stammer, tell, have, be · To what, where: length, brother, Smith, many months · 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, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Smith | det |
| 4 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 made | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stammer | mark |
| 8 | stammer | stammer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tell | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Tell | punct |
| 11 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 Tell | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Tell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 have | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 months | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 months | cop |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 months | det |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 months | amod |
| 23 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Tell | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make out | past | the Smith | length | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stammer speech: other | to-infinitive | the Smith not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the Smith not said here | my brother | the Smith = smith | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | participle | this many months | tree rules |
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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