The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 11
Who now will welcome the bluebirds in the springtime?
What happens: welcome · To what, where: bluebirds, springtime
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 welcome | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 welcome | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 welcome | aux |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bluebirds | det |
| 6 | bluebirds | bluebird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 welcome | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 springtime | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 springtime | det |
| 9 | springtime | springtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 welcome | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | future | the bluebirds | the springtime | now | Who nsubj | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bluebird=Theme in springtime=Location |
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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