The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 38
“Your faces are familiar to me and your names I have not forgotten.
Who acts: faces, Hail, your · What happens: be, not forget, name · To what, where: Hail, names
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: who acts (faces, Hail, your), 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 | _ | 5 familiar | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faces | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 familiar | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 familiar | cop |
| 5 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 familiar | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 names | cc |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 names | nmod:poss |
| 10 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 me | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 forgotten | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 forgotten | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forgotten | advmod |
| 14 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 names | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 familiar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Your faces | Hail to you and heroes = hail | familiar property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not forget in a quote | present · perfect | Hail to you and heroes = hail | your names not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name in a quote | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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