The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 101
List to my song, Be glad, be gay On your wedding day.”
Who acts: List, my · What happens: be, sing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (List, my), 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 | List | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 song | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 song | nmod:poss |
| 4 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 List | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
| 6 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 glad | cop |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gay | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gay | cop |
| 10 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 glad | conj |
| 11 | On | on | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 day | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | compound |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gay | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | List to my song | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | List to my song not said here | day | gay property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing | my | nom song «communication 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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