The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 124

I thank you for the journey; but it will be long ere I climb another one of your magic trees.”

Who acts: I, journey · What happens: thank, be, climb · To what, where: you, one

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, journey), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thank	nsubj
2	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 thank	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 journey	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 journey	det
6	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thank	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 long	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 long	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 long	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 long	cop
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thank	parataxis
13	ere	ere	ADV	_	12 long	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 climb	nsubj
15	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 long	parataxis
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climb	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 trees	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 trees	nmod:poss
20	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trees	compound
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thank	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present	I		you	for the journey	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for journey=Attribute
2	is	future	journey			ere, long property	tree rules
3	climb	present	I	another one of your magic trees			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 124