The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 37

“All that may be true,” said the Maid of Beauty, “but your cuckoo is not my cuckoo, and so how could I welcome it in the springtime?

Who acts: All, Maid, cuckoo · What happens: be, say, not be, welcome · To what, where: cuckoo, springtime · 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 (All, Maid, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
2	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 true	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 All	obj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 true	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Maid	det
11	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Beauty	case
13	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Maid	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cuckoo	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 cuckoo	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 cuckoo	cc
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 cuckoo	nmod:poss
18	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cuckoo	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 cuckoo	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 cuckoo	advmod
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cuckoo	nmod:poss
22	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Maid	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 welcome	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 welcome	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	29 welcome	advmod
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 welcome	advmod
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 welcome	aux
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 welcome	nsubj
29	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 welcome	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 springtime	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 springtime	det
33	springtime	springtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 welcome	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	may	All that			true property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the Maid of Beauty but my cuckoo				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is a in a quote	present	your cuckoo	my cuckoo		my nmod:poss	tree rules
4	welcome in a quote	could	the Maid of Beauty but my cuckoo = maid	cuckoo	the springtime		vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in springtime=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 37