The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 128
She led him into the broad hall, she seated him on soft cushions, she threw a mantle of finest cloth over his shoulders.
Who acts: most · What happens: lead, seat, throw · To what, where: country, broad hall, soft cushions, mantle, shoulders
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 (most), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seated | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seated | nsubj |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seated | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 cushions | case |
| 13 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cushions | amod |
| 14 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seated | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 threw | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 threw | nsubj |
| 17 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mantle | det |
| 19 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 threw | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cloth | case |
| 21 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 cloth | amod |
| 22 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mantle | nmod |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 shoulders | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 threw | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | most | country | the broad hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | seat | past | most | country | soft cushions | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | |||
| 3 | throw | past | most | a mantle of finest cloth | country's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mantle=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
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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