The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 78

And now my only wish is to return home, to see once more the friends whom I love, to cheer my mother in her loneliness.”

Who acts: only wish, I, my · What happens: be, see, love, cheer, wish · To what, where: friends, mother, loneliness

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 (only wish, I, my), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 return	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 return	advmod
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wish	nmod:poss
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wish	amod
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 return	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 return	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	8 return	mark
8	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 return	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 return	conj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 see	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 friends	det
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 see	obj
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 love	obj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 love	nsubj
19	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cheer	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cheer	mark
22	cheer	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 see	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cheer	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 loneliness	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 loneliness	nmod:poss
27	loneliness	loneliness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cheer	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	my only wish			now	home, return property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	my only wish not said here	the friends				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus
3	love	present	I	the friends				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
4	cheer	to-infinitive	my only wish not said here	my mother	hope's loneliness			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mother=Experiencer
5	wish		my					nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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 78

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 78