The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 19
Will you not now go with me to my far distant home—to the Land of Heroes in the sunny south?
Who acts: you · What happens: not go · To what, where: far distant home
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 (you), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 10 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 home | amod |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Land | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Land | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Land | det |
| 16 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Heroes | case |
| 18 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Land | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 south | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 south | det |
| 21 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 south | amod |
| 22 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Heroes | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | future | you | my far distant home | now | with me; to the Land of Heroes in the sunny south | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location to land=Destination |
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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