The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 39

“Look around you and see your neighbors starving, dying—hear your neighbors’ children moaning, crying.

Who acts: you, neighbors · What happens: look, see, starve, die, hear, moan · To what, where: neighbors, children

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 (you, neighbors), 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	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	4 you	case
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Look	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 see	cc
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	conj
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 neighbors	nmod:poss
8	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
9	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 see	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dying	punct
11	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 starving	conj
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
13	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	conj
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neighbors	nmod:poss
15	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 children	nmod:poss
16	’	's	PART	_	15 neighbors	case
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	obj
18	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 hear	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crying	punct
20	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 moaning	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here		around you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around you=Theme
2	see in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your neighbors		tree rules
3	starve in a quote	gerund	your neighbors not said here			tree rules
4	die in a quote	gerund	your neighbors not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	hear in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your neighbors's children		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
6	moan in a quote	gerund	you not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express in a quote	gerund	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 39