The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 42
Now our eyes see that which our hearts could not believe and we would fain rejoice with you and be glad because of your good fortune.”
Who acts: eyes, hearts, we · What happens: see, not believe, fain, rejoice, be · 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: who acts (eyes, hearts, we), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 see | advmod |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 believe | mark |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 believe | obj |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 believe | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 believe | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 believe | advmod |
| 11 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fain | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fain | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fain | aux |
| 15 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 believe | conj |
| 16 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fain | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 rejoice | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glad | cc |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 glad | cop |
| 21 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rejoice | conj |
| 22 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 fortune | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 because | fixed |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fortune | amod |
| 26 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glad | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | our eyes | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not believe | could | our hearts | which obj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fain | would | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | infinitive | we not said here | with you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | we not said here | because your good fortune; glad property | 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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