The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 35
When they come in and seat themselves beside the hearth-stones, you must come forward and greet them.
Who acts: wages, you · What happens: come in, come forward, greet · To what, where: seat, hearth stones, wages
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 (wages, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 come | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 seat | cc |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 seat | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stones | det |
| 10 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stones | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hearth | punct |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 greet | cc |
| 19 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 come | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 greet | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | present | wages = wage | seat wages | the hearth stones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside stone=Location | |||
| 2 | come forward | must | you | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | infinitive | you not said here | wages = wage | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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