The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of Beauty, sentence 41
“Summer days are warm and bright; A maiden’s heart is always light.
Who acts: Summer days, heart · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of Beauty. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Summer days, heart), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
| 2 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | compound |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bright | cc |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 light | punct |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 maiden | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 light | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 light | cop |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 light | advmod |
| 15 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Summer days | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | Summer days not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | a maiden's heart | always, light property | tree rules |
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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