The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 12

“You surely remember him, my daughter—how he came to us from the sea, how he sat at our fireside, how he ate from our table!”

Who acts: You, hero · What happens: remember, come, sit, eat · To what, where: hero, us, sea, fireside, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, hero), 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 remember	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	4 remember	advmod
4	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 daughter	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 daughter	nmod:poss
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obl
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 came	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sat	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 fireside	case
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fireside	nmod:poss
24	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 ate	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ate	nsubj
28	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	parataxis
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 table	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 table	nmod:poss
31	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 ate	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present	You	hero			my daughter obl; surely property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	past	hero		us	the sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location from sea=Destination
3	sit in a quote	past	hero			our fireside		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fireside=Location
4	eat in a quote	past	hero			our table		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from table=Source

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 Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 12