The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 23
The maiden answered softly, and she blushed as she spoke: “Why should I leave my own sweet home to go and live with strangers, to be a poor man’s wife in a poor and distant land?
Who acts: maiden, task · What happens: answer, blush, speak, leave, go, live · To what, where: own sweet home, wife, poor land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (maiden, task), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blushed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blushed | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 blushed | nsubj |
| 8 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 spoke | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blushed | advcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 leave | punct |
| 14 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 leave | advmod |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 leave | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 leave | nsubj |
| 17 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 blushed | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 home | amod |
| 20 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 home | amod |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 leave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 leave | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 live | cc |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 strangers | case |
| 27 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 live | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wife | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wife | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wife | cop |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 man | case |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 go | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 land | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 land | det |
| 38 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 land | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 distant | cc |
| 40 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 poor | conj |
| 41 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wife | nmod |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the maiden | softly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | blush | past | task | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | task | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | should | task | my own sweet home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | task not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live in a quote | infinitive | task not said here | with strangers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with stranger=Location | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | a poor man's wife | a poor land | a poor man nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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