The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 74
“In other words, you are homesick; your heart is filled with longing for your own country and your own fireside.”
Who acts: you · What happens: be, fill · To what, where: other words, heart
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 homesick | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 homesick | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 words | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 homesick | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 homesick | cop |
| 8 | homesick | homesick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 homesick | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 longing | case |
| 15 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 country | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 country | amod |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fireside | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fireside | amod |
| 23 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 country | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 homesick | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 homesick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | other words | homesick property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fill in a quote | present · passive | your heart | with longing; for your own country and your own fireside | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with longing=Instrument |
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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