The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 127
He had forgotten his family, his home, and his sweet country.
Who acts: bleeding · What happens: forget · To what, where: family
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bleeding), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgotten | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 home | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 country | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 country | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 country | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 country | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forgotten | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | bleeding | bleeding's family and bleeding's home | bleeding's sweet country obl | 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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