The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 31
Who, in the autumn, would pick the red cranberries in our marshes?
What happens: pick · To what, where: red cranberries, marshes
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 | 8 pick | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 autumn | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 autumn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 autumn | det |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 pick | aux |
| 8 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cranberries | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cranberries | amod |
| 11 | cranberries | cranberry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pick | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 marshes | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 marshes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cranberries | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | would | the red cranberries | our marshes | Who in the autumn nsubj | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cranberry=Patient |
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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