The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 99
He sat entranced by the side of the mighty singer and laid each word of song deep down in the treasury of his memory.
Who acts: side · What happens: entrance, lay, word · To what, where: man, word, treasury, song
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 (side), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entranced | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entranced | aux:pass |
| 3 | entranced | entrance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entranced | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 singer | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 singer | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 singer | amod |
| 10 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entranced | conj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 song | case |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | nmod |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 18 down | advmod |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 laid | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 treasury | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 treasury | det |
| 21 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 memory | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 memory | nmod:poss |
| 24 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 treasury | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entranced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrance | past · passive | the side of the mighty singer | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the side of the mighty singer not said here | each word of song | the treasury of man's memory | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme in treasury=Destination | ||
| 3 | word | song | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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