The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 61
As for my escape—well, I escaped by promising to send you to the Frozen Land, my dear brother.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: escape, promise, send · To what, where: dear brother, you
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 (I, my), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 escape | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 escape | nmod:poss |
| 4 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escaped | obl |
| 5 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 escape | punct |
| 6 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 escaped | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 escaped | nsubj |
| 9 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 promising | mark |
| 11 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 escaped | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 send | mark |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 promising | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 send | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Land | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Land | det |
| 17 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Land | compound |
| 18 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brother | punct |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brother | amod |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 send | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 escaped | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 escaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | I | as my escape | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | gerund | I not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my dear brother | you | to the Frozen Land | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to land=Destination | ||
| 4 | escape | my | nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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