The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 77
Unwillingly did I come to your bleak and chilly Pohyola; unwillingly have I remained here, cheered by a single hope which has at last been blasted.
Who acts: I, single hope · What happens: come, remain, cheer, have, blast · To what, where: bleak, last
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, single hope), 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 | Unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bleak | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bleak | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bleak | bleak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Pohyola | cc |
| 9 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Pohyola | amod |
| 10 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bleak | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 remained | punct |
| 12 | unwillingly | unwillingly | ADV | _ | 15 remained | advmod |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 remained | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 come | parataxis |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 remained | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cheered | punct |
| 18 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 remained | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 hope | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hope | det |
| 21 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hope | amod |
| 22 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cheered | obl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hope | acl:relcl |
| 25 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 28 blasted | mark |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 blasted | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 blasted | aux:pass |
| 28 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 has | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | I | your bleak and chilly Pohyola | unwillingly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bleak=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | remain | present · perfect | I | here | unwillingly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | cheer | participle | I not said here | by a single hope | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a single hope | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | blast | participle · passive | last | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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