The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 25
We had mourned you as dead!
What happens: mourn · To what, where: We
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: 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mourned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mourned | aux |
| 3 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mourned | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 dead | case |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mourned | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past · perfect · passive | We | as dead; you obj | 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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