The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 7
On her couch beside the door Dame Louhi, the Wise Woman of the North, sat reclining.
What happens: sit, recline · To what, where: couch
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 couch | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 couch | nmod:poss |
| 3 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 Dame | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dame | compound |
| 7 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 couch | nmod |
| 8 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dame | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Woman | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Woman | det |
| 11 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Woman | amod |
| 12 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dame | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 North | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 North | det |
| 15 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Woman | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 couch | punct |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | reclining | recline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sat | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | ice's couch beside door Dame | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | recline | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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