The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 13
“This fair, sweet country shall now no longer be called the Frozen Land.
What happens: call · To what, where: sweet country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 country | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sweet | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fair | punct |
| 5 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 country | amod |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 called | advmod |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 called | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Land | det |
| 14 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Land | compound |
| 15 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | shall · passive | this sweet country | now | the Frozen Land xcomp; long property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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