The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 56
“Beyond this sea lies our own sweet country, the home of heroes.”
What happens: lie · To what, where: own sweet country
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. 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 | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 2 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obl |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 country | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 8 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 home | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 home | det |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 country | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 heroes | case |
| 14 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 home | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present | our own sweet country and the home of heroes | beyond this sea | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme |
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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