The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 36
Long have we watched for you, long have we waited!” shouted the glad maid of the morning.
Who acts: we · What happens: watch, have, wait, shout · To what, where: Long, glad maid
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: who acts (we), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 watched | conj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | advcl |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 waited | nsubj |
| 11 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | ccomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shouted | punct |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 watched | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maid | det |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maid | amod |
| 17 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shouted | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 maid | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · perfect · passive | Long | for you; we nsubj | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wait | past | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express in a quote | past | the glad maid of the morning | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Topic |
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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