The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 14
“And he grew homesick, he pined for his own fireside, he longed to return to his kinsfolk and friends, and notwithstanding our kindness he sang not one song during all his stay with us.”
Who acts: Beauty · What happens: grow, pine, long, return, notwithstand, not sing · To what, where: kindness, one song
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 (Beauty), 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 grew | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | homesick | homesick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pined | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pined | nsubj |
| 8 | pined | pine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 fireside | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fireside | amod |
| 12 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pined | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 longed | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 longed | nsubj |
| 15 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pined | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 return | mark |
| 17 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 longed | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 kinsfolk | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 20 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 return | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 friends | cc |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kinsfolk | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 notwithstanding | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 notwithstanding | cc |
| 25 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grew | advcl |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 27 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 notwithstanding | obj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 sang | nsubj |
| 29 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 kindness | acl:relcl |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 sang | advmod |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 song | nummod |
| 32 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sang | obj |
| 33 | during | during | ADP | _ | 36 stay | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 stay | det:predet |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 stay | nmod:poss |
| 36 | stay | stay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 notwithstanding | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 us | case |
| 38 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 notwithstanding | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | past | Beauty | homesick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pine in a quote | past | Beauty | for Beauty's own fireside | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for fireside=Theme | ||||
| 3 | long in a quote | past | Beauty | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Beauty not said here | to Beauty's kinsfolk and friends result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to kinsfolk=Result | ||||
| 5 | notwithstand in a quote | gerund | Beauty not said here | our kindness | during Beauty's stay | with us | tree rules | ||
| 6 | not sing speech: express in a quote | past | Beauty | one song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stay in a quote | Beauty | nom stay «act 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.
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