The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 60

The Mistress went on with her bantering; she laid salt on the poor man’s wounds and briskly rubbed it in.

Who acts: Mistress, poor man · What happens: go on, lay, rub in, wound · To what, where: salt, wounds

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 (Mistress, poor man), 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	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 bantering	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bantering	nmod:poss
7	bantering	bantering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laid	nsubj
10	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	17 wounds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wounds	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 man	case
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rubbed	cc
19	briskly	briskly	ADV	_	20 rubbed	advmod
20	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rubbed	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	20 rubbed	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the Mistress			with Mistress's bantering	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	Mistress	salt	the poor man's wounds		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent salt=Theme on wound=Destination
3	rub in	past	the Mistress not said here	salt		briskly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	wound		the poor man				nom wound «state transitive»: 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.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 60