The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 26

Six cuckoos were sitting on the dashboard, all loudly calling; and beside them were seven bluebirds twittering blithely as birds are wont to twitter in the joyous springtime.

Who acts: Six cuckoos, cuckoos, seven bluebirds, birds · What happens: sit, call, be, twitter · To what, where: dashboard, seven bluebirds, joyous springtime · 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 (Six cuckoos, cuckoos, seven bluebirds, birds), 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	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 cuckoos	nummod
2	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sitting	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sitting	aux
4	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 dashboard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dashboard	det
7	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 calling	punct
9	all	all	ADV	_	11 calling	advmod
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	11 calling	advmod
11	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 sitting	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 bluebirds	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bluebirds	cc
14	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 bluebirds	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bluebirds	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 bluebirds	cop
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 bluebirds	nummod
18	bluebirds	bluebird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sitting	parataxis
19	twittering	twitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 bluebirds	acl
20	blithely	blithely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 twittering	xcomp
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 wont	mark
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wont	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wont	cop
24	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blithely	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 twitter	mark
26	twitter	twitter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wont	xcomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 springtime	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 springtime	det
29	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 springtime	amod
30	springtime	springtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 twitter	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	Six cuckoos	the dashboard		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dashboard=Location
2	call	gerund	Six cuckoos not said here		all, loudly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	cuckoos = cuckoo	seven bluebirds		tree rules
4	twitter	gerund	seven bluebirds not said here		blithely property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	birds		wont property	tree rules
6	twitter	to-infinitive	birds not said here	the joyous springtime		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 26