The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 53
But no matter where I went, no matter what I did, my heart was always sick for my home land; I sighed for the dear friends I had left behind me.”
Who acts: I, heart · What happens: go, do, be, sigh, leave · To what, where: matter, dear friends
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 (I, heart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 matter | punct |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 matter | det |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 did | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 did | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 matter | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sick | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sick | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sick | cop |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 sick | advmod |
| 18 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 land | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 land | amod |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sick | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 sighed | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sighed | nsubj |
| 25 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 friends | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 friends | det |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 friends | amod |
| 29 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sighed | obl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 left | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | aux |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 friends | acl:relcl |
| 33 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 left | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | no matter | no matter obl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | I | no matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | my heart | for my home land; always, sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sigh | past | I | for the dear friends | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for friend=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | I | the dear friends not said here | behind me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme behind i=Location |
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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