--- title: “And he grew homesick, he pined for his own fireside, he longed to r… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: “And he grew homesick, he pined for his own fireside, he longed to return to his kinsfolk and friends, and notwithstanding our kindness he sang not one song during all his stay with us.” Who acts: Beauty. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beauty), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:23:14 # text = “And he grew homesick, he pined for his own fireside, he longed to return to his kinsfolk and friends, and notwithstanding our kindness he sang not one song during all his stay with us.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 homesick homesick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pined pine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fireside fireside NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 kinsfolk kinsfolk NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 notwithstanding notwithstand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 26 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 during during ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 stay stay NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** *in a quote* | past | Beauty | | | | | homesick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pine** *in a quote* | past | Beauty | | | | | for Beauty's own fireside | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for fireside=Theme | | 3 | **long** *in a quote* | past | Beauty | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **return** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Beauty *not said here* | | | | | to Beauty's kinsfolk and friends *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to kinsfolk=Result | | 5 | **notwithstand** *in a quote* | gerund | Beauty *not said here* | our kindness | | | during Beauty's stay | with us | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Beauty | one song | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 7 | **stay** *in a quote* | | Beauty | | | | | | nom stay «act intransitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/23/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/23/15/) - ↑ back to [The Old Man’s Wooing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/23/)