The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 7

They sat gossiping and nodding beside their cheerful hearth-fires, and were glad that their lives had been cast in the pleasant Land of Heroes.

Who acts: villagers · What happens: sit, gossip, nod, be, cast, fire · To what, where: cheerful hearth fires, lives, pleasant Land

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 (villagers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gossiping	gossip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nodding	cc
5	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gossiping	conj
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 fires	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fires	nmod:poss
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fires	amod
9	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fires	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hearth	punct
11	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nodding	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 glad	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 glad	cc
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 glad	cop
15	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 cast	mark
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 lives	nmod:poss
18	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cast	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cast	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 cast	aux:pass
21	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 glad	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 Land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Land	det
24	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Land	amod
25	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Heroes	case
27	Heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Land	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	villagers = villager				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gossip speech: other	gerund	villagers = villager not said here				vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	nod	gerund	villagers = villager not said here		villagers's cheerful hearth fires		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				glad property	tree rules
5	cast	past · perfect · passive		villagers's lives	the pleasant Land of Heroes		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in land=Destination
6	fire		villagers = villager				nom fire «event 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 7

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 7