The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 46
“The children are crying for food, and men and women perish because of the poverty of the land.
Who acts: children, men · What happens: cry, perish
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 (children, men), 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 crying | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crying | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crying | aux |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 perish | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 perish | cc |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 perish | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 women | cc |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 men | conj |
| 13 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crying | conj |
| 14 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 17 poverty | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 because | fixed |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 poverty | det |
| 17 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perish | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 land | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 poverty | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | the children | for food | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for food=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | perish in a quote | present | men and women | because the poverty of the land | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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