The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 34
And the word that was oftenest on the lips of Smith and Minstrel was “Home! home! home!”
Who acts: word · What happens: be · To what, where: lips, Home
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 oftenest | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oftenest | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 oftenest | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 oftenest | cop |
| 6 | oftenest | often | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 lips | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lips | det |
| 9 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oftenest | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Smith | case |
| 11 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lips | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Minstrel | cc |
| 13 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Smith | conj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Home | cop |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Home | punct |
| 16 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oftenest | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 oftenest | punct |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 oftenest | advmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oftenest | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 oftenest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the word | the lips of Smith and Minstrel | that nsubj; home appos; home, often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | Home | 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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