The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 61
The Mistress of Pohyola was overcome with joy.
What happens: overcome · To what, where: Mistress
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: 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 | 2 Mistress | det |
| 2 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pohyola | case |
| 4 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mistress | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 overcome | aux:pass |
| 6 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 joy | case |
| 8 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overcome | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | the Mistress of Pohyola | with joy | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=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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