The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 119
The tiny maiden received each one silently, taking note of every mark or sign or other means of recognition.
Who acts: tiny maiden, taking · What happens: receive, take, mean · To what, where: one, note · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny maiden, taking), 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 maiden | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | nsubj |
| 4 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 received | obj |
| 7 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 4 received | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 means | csubj |
| 10 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mark | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 mark | det |
| 13 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sign | cc |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mark | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 other | cc |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mark | conj |
| 18 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 received | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 recognition | case |
| 20 | recognition | recognition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 means | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | the tiny maiden | each one | silently property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | note | of every mark or sign | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent note=Theme of mark=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | taking | of recognition | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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