The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 128
My sweet country calls me, and I must hasten on my journey.
Who acts: sweet country, I, my · What happens: call, hasten, journey · To what, where: me, journey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet country, I, my), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 country | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 country | amod |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calls | nsubj |
| 4 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 calls | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hasten | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hasten | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hasten | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hasten | aux |
| 10 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 calls | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 journey | nmod:poss |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hasten | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calls | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | My sweet country | me | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hasten | must | I | my journey | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on journey=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | journey | my | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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