The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 39

The North Country, the Frozen Land as you call it, would be very lonely if I were to leave it; the meadows would be joyless, the hills would be forlorn, the shores would be desolate.

Who acts: you, North Country, I, meadows, hills, shores · What happens: call, be, leave · 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 (you, North Country, I, meadows), 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	3 Country	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Country	compound
3	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 lonely	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Land	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Land	det
6	Frozen	Frozen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Land	compound
7	Land	Land	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Country	appos
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 call	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 call	nsubj
10	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Land	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 call	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Country	punct
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 lonely	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 lonely	cop
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 lonely	advmod
16	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 leave	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 leave	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 leave	aux
20	to	to	PART	_	21 leave	mark
21	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 lonely	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 joyless	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 meadows	det
25	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 joyless	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 joyless	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 joyless	cop
28	joyless	joyless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lonely	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 forlorn	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hills	det
31	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 forlorn	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 forlorn	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 forlorn	cop
34	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 joyless	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 desolate	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 shores	det
37	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 desolate	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 desolate	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 desolate	cop
40	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 joyless	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present	you	country		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	is	would	the North Country		lonely property	tree rules
3	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	I	country		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	is	would	the meadows		joyless property	tree rules
5	is	would	the hills		forlorn property	tree rules
6	is	would	the shores		desolate property	tree rules

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 39

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 39