The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 33
The Smith had now grown bolder, and he answered wisely: “The cuckoo comes to my country as well as yours.
Who acts: Smith, Ilmarinen, cuckoo · What happens: grow, answer, come · To what, where: country · 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 (Smith, Ilmarinen, cuckoo), 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 Smith | det |
| 2 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 grown | advmod |
| 5 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grown | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | parataxis |
| 11 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cuckoo | det |
| 15 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | nsubj |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 grown | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comes | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 yours | cc |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 23 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 comes | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past · perfect | the Smith | now | bold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Ilmarinen | wisely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | the cuckoo | my country | yours conj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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