The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 39
When did she refuse to give a wayfarer the warmest place by her fireside?”
Who acts: shelter · What happens: refuse, not give · To what, where: wayfarer
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shelter), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 refuse | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 refuse | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 refuse | nsubj |
| 4 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refuse | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 wayfarer | det |
| 8 | wayfarer | wayfarer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | warmest | warm | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 fireside | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past · do-support | shelter | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not give | to-infinitive | shelter not said here | a wayfarer | by shelter's fireside; the warmest place obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wayfarer=Recipient place=Theme |
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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