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title: Who, in the early springtime, would welcome the cuckoo and answer hi… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Who, in the early springtime, would welcome the cuckoo and answer his joyous song? Who acts: springtime. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 29

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Who, in the early springtime, would welcome the cuckoo and answer his joyous song?

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**Who acts:** springtime · **What happens:** welcome, answer, sing · **To what, where:** cuckoo, joyous song

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (springtime), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:12:29
# text = Who, in the early springtime, would welcome the cuckoo and answer his joyous song?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	springtime	springtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | would |  | the cuckoo |  |  |  | Who *nsubj*; the early springtime *nsubj* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuckoo=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | springtime's joyous song |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sing** |  | springtime |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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