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title: Who now will answer the cuckoos when they call? — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: Who now will answer the cuckoos when they call? Who acts: cuckoos. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 10

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Who now will answer the cuckoos when they call?

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**Who acts:** cuckoos · **What happens:** answer, call · **To what, where:** cuckoos · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cuckoos), 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:pg66819:28:10
# text = Who now will answer the cuckoos when they call?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future |  | the cuckoos |  |  | now | Who *nsubj* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cuckoo=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call** | present | cuckoos *= cuckoo* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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