The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 43
By the smouldering fire in his own small hut the head serving-man was sitting; his eldest son was working beside the door.
Who acts: head serving man, eldest son · What happens: sit, work · To what, where: own small hut, door
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head serving man, eldest son), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 fire | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 3 | smouldering | smouldering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fire | compound |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 working | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hut | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hut | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hut | amod |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hut | amod |
| 9 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fire | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | compound |
| 12 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 serving | punct |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | aux |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hut | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 fire | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 son | amod |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 working | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 working | aux |
| 22 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 25 door | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 door | det |
| 25 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 working | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the head serving man | clamor's own small hut not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hut=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | past · progressive | clamor's eldest son | the door | by the smouldering fire in clamor's own small hut | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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