The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 17
The housekeeping in the roomy dwelling beside the sea would have been shabbily attended to had it not been for her daily care; and the sun would have shone but seldom in the Frozen Land [B] had not the Maid of Beauty encouraged it with her smiles.
Who acts: housekeeping, Maid, Nature · What happens: dwell, attend, have, not be, shine, encourage · To what, where: sea, housekeeping, sun, Frozen Land
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (housekeeping, Maid, Nature), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 housekeeping | det |
| 2 | housekeeping | housekeeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attended | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 roomy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roomy | det |
| 5 | roomy | roomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 housekeeping | nmod |
| 6 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 housekeeping | acl |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelling | obl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 attended | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 attended | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 attended | aux:pass |
| 13 | shabbily | shabbily | ADV | _ | 14 attended | advmod |
| 14 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 attended | advcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 care | advmod |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 care | cop |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 care | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 care | nmod:poss |
| 22 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 care | amod |
| 23 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 shone | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shone | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 shone | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 shone | aux |
| 30 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 attended | conj |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 seldom | cc |
| 32 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 30 shone | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 Land | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Land | det |
| 35 | Frozen | Frozen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Land | compound |
| 36 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 shone | obl |
| 37 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 38 B | punct |
| 38 | B | B | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Land | appos |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 38 B | punct |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 encouraged | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 Maid | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Maid | det |
| 43 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 encouraged | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Beauty | case |
| 45 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Maid | nmod |
| 46 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 shone | conj |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 encouraged | obj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 smiles | case |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 smiles | nmod:poss |
| 50 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 encouraged | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | the housekeeping in the roomy not said here | the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | attend | would · perfect · passive | the housekeeping in the roomy | shabbily property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | housekeeping | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not is | participle | for Nature's daily care; Nature nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shine | would · perfect · passive | the sun | the Frozen Land | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | encourage | past | the Maid of Beauty | housekeeping | with Nature's smiles | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 7 | smile | Nature | nom smile «communication 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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