The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 39
“Well, I have done greater things than that,” he answered boastingly.
Who acts: various · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: greater things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (various), 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 done | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 done | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 done | obj |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 things | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | parataxis |
| 15 | boastingly | boastingly | ADV | _ | 14 answered | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | various | greater things | than that | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | various | boastingly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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