The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 61
“Oh, you shall hear enough about it, and you will forge it for us, I know,” said the Mistress, grim but joyful.
Who acts: you, Mistress · What happens: hear, forge, know, say · To what, where: enough, smithing · 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 (you, Mistress), 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 | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 hear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 enough | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forge | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forge | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 forge | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 forge | aux |
| 14 | forge | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 enough | advcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forge | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forge | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mistress | det |
| 25 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grim | punct |
| 27 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Mistress | amod |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 joyful | cc |
| 29 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grim | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | shall | you | enough | about smithing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | forge in a quote | future | you | smithing | for us | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for we=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the Mistress = mistress | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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