The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 131
Why do you dwell on this bleak promontory far from your fellow-men?”
Who acts: you · What happens: dwell · To what, where: bleak promontory
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dwell | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dwell | nsubj |
| 4 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 promontory | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 promontory | det |
| 7 | bleak | bleak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 promontory | amod |
| 8 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dwell | obl |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 dwell | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 men | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fellow | punct |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 far | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dwell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present · do-support | you | this bleak promontory | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on promontory=Location |
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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