The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 87
“Why, indeed, do you tarry so long in Pohyola, wearing out your welcome, and wearying us all with your presence?”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: tarry, wear out, weary, welcome · To what, where: welcome, us
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, your), 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 | _ | 8 tarry | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 tarry | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 Why | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tarry | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tarry | nsubj |
| 8 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 tarry | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Pohyola | case |
| 12 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 long | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wearing | punct |
| 14 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 tarry | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 wearing | compound:prt |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 welcome | nmod:poss |
| 17 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wearing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wearying | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wearying | cc |
| 20 | wearying | weary | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 wearing | conj |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wearying | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 wearying | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 presence | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 presence | nmod:poss |
| 25 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 all | nmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 tarry | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 tarry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarry in a quote | present · do-support | you | long property | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wear out in a quote | gerund | you not said here | your welcome | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent welcome=Source | ||||
| 3 | weary in a quote | gerund | you not said here | us | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer all=Result | ||||
| 4 | welcome in a quote | your | nom welcome «state transitive»: poss=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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