The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 57
Now you shall sit again at our fireside; you shall eat again at our table; you shall rest and rejoice by the sunny shores of Pohyola.”
Who acts: you · What happens: sit, eat, rest, rejoice · To what, where: fireside, table
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sit | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sit | aux |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sit | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 fireside | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fireside | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fireside | fireside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sit | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 eat | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 eat | aux |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 eat | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 table | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 table | nmod:poss |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eat | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 rest | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rest | aux |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sit | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rejoice | cc |
| 22 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 rest | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 shores | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shores | det |
| 25 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shores | amod |
| 26 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rejoice | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Pohyola | case |
| 28 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shores | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | shall | you | our fireside | now; again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fireside=Location | |||
| 2 | eat | shall | you | our table | again | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | rest | shall | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | infinitive | you not said here | by the sunny shores of Pohyola | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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