The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 51

The stranger leaped to his feet and answered, “Surely, surely, I have often met that famous workman.

Who acts: stranger, Wise Woman · What happens: leap, answer, meet · To what, where: famous workman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (stranger, Wise Woman), 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 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaped	nsubj
3	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 answered	cc
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leaped	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Surely	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Surely	punct
11	Surely	surely	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surely	punct
13	surely	surely	ADV	_	11 Surely	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 met	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 met	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 met	aux
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 met	advmod
18	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 leaped	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 workman	mark
20	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 workman	amod
21	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 met	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leap	past	the stranger		to stranger's feet	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the stranger not said here		surely property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	meet in a quote	present · perfect	the Wise Woman = woman	famous workman	often property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 51

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 51