The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 89
My own country is the fairest; my own home is the dearest; my own table is the sweetest.
Who acts: own country, own home, own table · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own country, own home, own table), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 country | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 country | amod |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fairest | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fairest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairest | det |
| 6 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 dearest | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 home | amod |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dearest | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dearest | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dearest | det |
| 13 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 fairest | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 sweetest | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 table | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 table | amod |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sweetest | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sweetest | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sweetest | det |
| 20 | sweetest | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 dearest | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My own country | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | my own home | dear property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | my own table | sweet property | 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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