The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 33
“We have missed you sadly, and great was our fear that we should never see you again.”
Who acts: We · What happens: miss, be, not see · To what, where: you, great fear
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 4 missed | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 missed | aux |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 missed | obj |
| 6 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 missed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fear | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fear | cc |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fear | amod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fear | cop |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fear | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 see | obj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 see | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | aux |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 see | advmod |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fear | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 see | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss in a quote | present · perfect | We | you | sadly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | We not said here | our great fear | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not see in a quote | should | we | our great fear | again | you obj | tree rules |
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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