The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 29

On the third day the poor man rose and sat in his old accustomed seat by the fire—he seemed quite well and strong.

Who acts: poor man, stranger · What happens: rise, sit, accustom, seem · To what, where: old accustomed seat

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 (poor man, 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 seat	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 seat	nmod:poss
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seat	amod
14	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 seat	amod
15	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fire	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rose	parataxis
22	quite	quite	ADV	_	23 well	advmod
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 seemed	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 strong	cc
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 seemed	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the poor man		day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	the poor man not said here	stranger's old accustomed seat		by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location
3	accustom	participle					tree rules
4	seem	past	stranger			well property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 29