The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 8

To sleep, to eat, to rejoice together in the hour that was their own—this, to them, was the sum of all happiness—and this, too, is wisdom.

Who acts: hour · What happens: sleep, eat, rejoice, be · To what, where: this, villagers, sum, wisdom

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 (hour), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 sleep	mark
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sleep	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rejoice	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 rejoice	mark
8	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 rejoice	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hour	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hour	det
12	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rejoice	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 own	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 own	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 own	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hour	acl:relcl
17	—	-	PUNCT	_	18 this	punct
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sleep	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 them	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sleep	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sum	punct
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sum	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sum	det
25	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 happiness	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 happiness	det
28	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sum	nmod
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 this	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 this	cc
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sleep	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 this	punct
33	too	too	ADV	_	2 sleep	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 wisdom	punct
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 wisdom	cop
36	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sleep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	to-infinitive		this	villagers = villager		this obl	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rejoice	to-infinitive				hour	together property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the hour				villagers = villager nmod:poss; own property	tree rules
5	is a	past		the sum			of all happiness	tree rules
6	is a	present		wisdom				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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 8

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 8