The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 24
There the master Smith and his mother, Dame Lokka, did all that they could for his comfort.
Who acts: master Smith, stranger · What happens: do, comfort
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master Smith, stranger), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 Smith | expl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Smith | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Smith | compound |
| 4 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 did | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mother | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Smith | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dame | punct |
| 9 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Smith | conj |
| 10 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dame | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Smith | punct |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 could | det:predet |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 did | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 comfort | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 19 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the master Smith There and stranger's mother and Dame | for stranger's comfort | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | comfort | stranger | nom comfort «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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