The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 3
Joyful then were the voices of the children as they sought for the first wildflowers in the woods, and jocund were the songs of maid and matron as they bustled hither and thither, caring for the house, caring for the garden, caring for the lambs and the young reindeer.
Who acts: Joyful voices, children · What happens: be, seek, bustle, care · To what, where: Joyful voices, woods, jocund songs
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joyful voices, children), 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 | Joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voices | amod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 voices | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 voices | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voices | det |
| 5 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 voices | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 sought | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sought | nsubj |
| 11 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wildflowers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wildflowers | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 wildflowers | amod |
| 15 | wildflowers | wildflower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jocund | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 jocund | cc |
| 21 | jocund | jocund | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 songs | amod |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 songs | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 songs | det |
| 24 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sought | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 maid | case |
| 26 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 songs | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 matron | cc |
| 28 | matron | matron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 maid | conj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 bustled | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 bustled | nsubj |
| 31 | bustled | bustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sought | advcl |
| 32 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 31 bustled | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 thither | cc |
| 34 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 32 hither | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 caring | punct |
| 36 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 bustled | advcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 house | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 house | det |
| 39 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 caring | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 caring | punct |
| 41 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 caring | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 garden | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 garden | det |
| 44 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 caring | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 caring | punct |
| 46 | caring | care | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 caring | conj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 lambs | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 lambs | det |
| 49 | lambs | lamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 caring | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 reindeer | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 reindeer | det |
| 52 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 reindeer | amod |
| 53 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 lambs | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Joyful voices | then | of the children | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek | past | the Joyful voices | the woods | for the first wildflowers; children = child nsubj | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for wildflower=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the jocund songs | of maid and matron | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bustle | past | children = child | thither | hither property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | care | gerund | children = child not said here | for the house | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for house=Theme | ||||
| 6 | care | gerund | children = child not said here | for the garden | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for garden=Theme | ||||
| 7 | care | gerund | children = child not said here | for the lambs and the young reindeer | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for lamb=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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