The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 86
“Now say no more about her; change the subject; tell me a new story.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, change, tell · To what, where: more, subject, new story, Smith · 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 more | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 change | punct |
| 9 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 subject | det |
| 11 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 change | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 tell | punct |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 story | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 story | amod |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | more about maiden | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | |||
| 2 | change in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the subject | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a new story | the Smith = smith | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic |
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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