The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 13
“Can this be the smithy, can this be the home which echoed to the merry sounds of love and peace?”
Who acts: this, home · What happens: be, echo · To what, where: smithy, home
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, home), 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 | _ | 6 smithy | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 smithy | aux |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 smithy | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 smithy | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smithy | det |
| 6 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | aux |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 home | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 home | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 smithy | appos |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 echoed | nsubj |
| 14 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 home | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sounds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sounds | det |
| 17 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sounds | amod |
| 18 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 echoed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 love | case |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 peace | cc |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 love | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 smithy | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 smithy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | can | this | the smithy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | can | this | the home | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | echo in a quote | past | the home | to the merry sounds of love and peace | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=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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