The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 28
“Oh, what joy to see home and comrades and country once again!”
Who acts: joy · What happens: see
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy), 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 | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 see | obj |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 comrades | cc |
| 10 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 country | cc |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 comrades | conj |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 again | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 see | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | joy | again | what obj; comrades and country conj; home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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