The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 77
Our dear village of Wainola is my home; it is the place of all places; I will never leave it.”
Who acts: Wainola, village, dear village · What happens: be, not leave · To what, where: place
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 (Wainola, village, dear village), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 village | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 village | amod |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 5 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 home | cop |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 place | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 place | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 place | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 village | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 places | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 places | det |
| 16 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 place | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 village | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 leave | advmod |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wainola | of my home; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | village | the place | of all places | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not leave | future | Our dear village and the place | place | I nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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