The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 41

Were I not here to note the change of seasons, the songbirds would surely forget to come, the flowers would neglect to bloom, the cranberries would perish ungathered.

Who acts: I, songbirds, flowers, cranberries, seasons · What happens: not be, note, forget, not come, neglect, not bloom · To what, where: change

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 (I, songbirds, flowers, cranberries), 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 here	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 here	advmod
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 forget	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 note	mark
6	note	note	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 here	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 change	det
8	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 note	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 seasons	case
10	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 change	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 songbirds	det
13	songbirds	songbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forget	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 forget	aux
15	surely	surely	ADV	_	16 forget	advmod
16	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forget	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 neglect	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 flowers	det
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 neglect	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 neglect	aux
23	neglect	neglect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 forget	parataxis
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bloom	mark
25	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 neglect	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 perish	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cranberries	det
28	cranberries	cranberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 perish	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 perish	aux
30	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 neglect	conj
31	ungathered	ungather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 perish	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	I		here property	tree rules
2	note	to-infinitive	I not said here	the change of seasons		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent change=Topic
3	forget	would	the songbirds		surely property	tree rules
4	not come	to-infinitive	the songbirds not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	neglect	would	the flowers			vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not bloom	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	perish	would	the cranberries			tree rules
8	ungather	participle	the cranberries not said here			tree rules
9	change		seasons			nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent

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 41

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 41