The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 26
Then, as he gradually came to himself, the good matron brought him that which would satisfy his hunger.
Who acts: stranger, good matron · What happens: come, bring, satisfy, hunger · To what, where: stranger, hunger
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 (stranger, good matron), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matron | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 matron | amod |
| 12 | matron | matron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 satisfy | mark |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 satisfy | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 satisfy | aux |
| 18 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 brought | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 satisfy | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | stranger | stranger | then | gradually property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to himself=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bring | past | the good matron | stranger | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | would | stranger's hunger | which nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hunger | stranger | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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