The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 27
She fed him warm milk of the reindeer, food most nourishing; soups and gruels she also gave him till his strength revived.
Who acts: matron, soups, strength · What happens: feed, give, revive · To what, where: warm milk, stranger
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 (matron, soups, strength), 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 fed | nsubj |
| 2 | fed | feed | 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 fed | obj |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 milk | amod |
| 5 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 reindeer | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reindeer | det |
| 8 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 milk | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 food | punct |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reindeer | conj |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 nourishing | amod |
| 12 | nourishing | nourishing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 food | amod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 14 | soups | soup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gruels | cc |
| 16 | gruels | gruel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 soups | conj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 gave | advmod |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fed | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 revived | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 strength | nmod:poss |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 revived | nsubj |
| 24 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gave | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | matron | warm milk of the reindeer and food | stranger | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient milk=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | soups and gruels | stranger | matron nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | revive | past | stranger's strength | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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