The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 30

Who, in the short summer, would caress the wildflowers in the wooded nooks and sing to the violets in the meadows?

What happens: caress, wood, sing · To what, where: wildflowers, wooded nooks, violets

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: 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 caress	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 summer	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 summer	amod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caress	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 caress	aux
9	caress	caress	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wildflowers	det
11	wildflowers	wildflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caress	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 nooks	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nooks	det
14	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 nooks	amod
15	nooks	nook	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 caress	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sing	cc
17	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 caress	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 violets	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 violets	det
20	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sing	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 meadows	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 meadows	det
23	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 violets	nmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 caress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	caress	would	the wildflowers		the wooded nooks	Who nsubj	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wildflower=Experiencer
2	wood	participle					tree rules
3	sing speech: express	infinitive		the violets in the meadows			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to violet=Recipient

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 30

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 30