The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 36
The songbirds live in the Land of Heroes half of every year, and the wild geese tarry there and build their nests in the sedgy inlets.”
Who acts: songbirds · What happens: live, build · To what, where: Land, nests, sedgy inlets
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 (songbirds), 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 songbirds | det |
| 2 | songbirds | songbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Land | det |
| 6 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 half | case |
| 8 | Heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 half | compound |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 Land | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tarry | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tarry | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 geese | det |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 geese | amod |
| 17 | geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 tarry | nsubj |
| 18 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 live | conj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 tarry | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 build | cc |
| 21 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | conj |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nests | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 build | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 inlets | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 inlets | det |
| 26 | sedgy | sedgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 inlets | amod |
| 27 | inlets | inlet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 build | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the songbirds | the Land of Heroes half of every year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | present | the songbirds not said here | geese's nests | the sedgy inlets | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
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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