The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 74
The Smith spoke quickly, angrily: “You may make bargains for yourself, not for me.
Who acts: Smith, You · What happens: speak, make · To what, where: bargains · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Smith | det |
| 2 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 angrily | punct |
| 6 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoke | parataxis |
| 12 | bargains | bargain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 yourself | case |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 make | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 me | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 me | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Smith | angrily, quickly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | may | You | bargains | for yourself; me advcl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bargain=Product for yourself=Asset |
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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