The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 1
Arrayed in becoming garments, the Maid of Beauty stood beside her mother.
Who acts: Maid · What happens: array, stand · To what, where: becoming garments
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid), 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 | Arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 garments | case |
| 3 | becoming | becoming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 garments | compound |
| 4 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Arrayed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Maid | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Maid | det |
| 7 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Beauty | case |
| 9 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Maid | nmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 garments | acl:relcl |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Arrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | participle | becoming garments | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the Maid of Beauty | becoming garments not said here | beside Maid's mother | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent garment=Theme beside mother=Destination |
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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