The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 77
When we hear our own home doors creaking behind us, then will be the time to sing and rejoice.
Who acts: we, own home doors · What happens: hear, creak, be, sing, rejoice · To what, where: own home doors, time
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: who acts (we, own home doors), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 hear | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | advcl |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 doors | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 doors | amod |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doors | compound |
| 7 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hear | obj |
| 8 | creaking | creak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 doors | acl |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 creaking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 time | advmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sing | mark |
| 18 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 time | acl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rejoice | cc |
| 20 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sing | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | we | our own home doors | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | creak | gerund | our own home doors not said here | behind us | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind we=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | future | the time | then | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | rejoice | infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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