The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 13
Who will care for my lambs?
What happens: care
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 | 3 care | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 care | aux |
| 3 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 lambs | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lambs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 care | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | future | for my lambs; Who nsubj | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for lamb=Theme |
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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