The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 42
Tell me quickly, how did you escape from the seething waters?
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, escape · To what, where: me, seething waters · 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), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Tell | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 escape | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 escape | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 escape | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 escape | nsubj |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 11 | seething | seething | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 waters | compound |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 escape | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | escape | past · do-support | you | the seething waters | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location |
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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