The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 24

My mother’s hall would be desolate; her kitchen would be cold and ill-cared for were I to go away.

Who acts: hall, kitchen, cold · What happens: be, care, go away

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 (hall, kitchen, cold), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hall	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 mother	case
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 desolate	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 desolate	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 desolate	cop
7	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 cold	punct
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kitchen	nmod:poss
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cold	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cold	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cold	cop
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 go	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cared	cc
15	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cared	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 ill	punct
17	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 cold	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 cared	obl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 go	mark
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 desolate	ccomp
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 desolate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	My mother's hall	desolate property	tree rules
2	is	would	task's kitchen	cold property	tree rules
3	care	participle	task's kitchen not said here		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	go away	past	cold	I nsubj; away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 24