The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 8
Your sweet songs will enliven the hours of evening, and we will converse often together concerning those things that are nearest to your heart and mine.
Who acts: sweet songs, we, things, Your · What happens: enliven, converse, concern, be, sing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet songs, we, things, Your), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 songs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 songs | amod |
| 3 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enliven | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 enliven | aux |
| 5 | enliven | enliven | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hours | det |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enliven | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hours | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 converse | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 converse | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 converse | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 converse | aux |
| 14 | converse | converse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enliven | conj |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 together | advmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 converse | advmod |
| 17 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 things | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 converse | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 nearest | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 nearest | cop |
| 22 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 things | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nearest | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mine | cc |
| 27 | mine | mine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 heart | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enliven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enliven | future | Your sweet songs | hour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | converse speech: other | future | we | concern that things; together property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | that things | to your heart and mine; near property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sing | Your | nom song «communication 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/13/8/