The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 50
The Wise Woman was standing in the doorway of her smoke-begrimed dwelling.
Who acts: Wise Woman · What happens: stand, begrime · To what, where: doorway
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wise Woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Woman | det |
| 2 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Woman | amod |
| 3 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 standing | aux |
| 5 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 doorway | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doorway | det |
| 8 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 standing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 dwelling | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 11 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 begrimed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 smoke | punct |
| 13 | begrimed | begrime | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 dwelling | amod |
| 14 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doorway | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the Wise Woman | the doorway of Woman's begrimed dwelling | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 2 | begrime | participle | smoke compound | tree rules |
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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