The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 62
Why do you weep salt tears, extinguishing the fire on my hearth?
Who acts: you · What happens: weep, extinguish · To what, where: salt tears, fire, hearth
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), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 weep | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weep | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 weep | nsubj |
| 4 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tears | compound |
| 6 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weep | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 extinguishing | punct |
| 8 | extinguishing | extinguish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 weep | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extinguishing | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 hearth | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hearth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extinguishing | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present · do-support | you | salt tears | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | extinguish | gerund | you not said here | the fire | my hearth | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
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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