The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 54
He made his way quickly to Dame Louhi’s well-remembered dwelling; he opened the door and entered; he stood beneath the smoky rafters and received the greetings of the grim and toothless Mistress.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: make, remember, open, enter, stand, receive · To what, where: way, dwelling, Dame, door, smoky rafters, greetings
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 (Minstrel), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 made | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Dame | case |
| 7 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 remembered | obl |
| 8 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Dame | flat |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 remembered | aux |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 remembered | advmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 well | punct |
| 12 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 made | parataxis |
| 13 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remembered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entered | cc |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 24 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 27 rafters | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rafters | det |
| 26 | smoky | smoky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 rafters | amod |
| 27 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stood | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 received | cc |
| 29 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 greetings | det |
| 31 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 received | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Mistress | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Mistress | det |
| 34 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Mistress | amod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 toothless | cc |
| 36 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 grim | conj |
| 37 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 greetings | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's way | quickly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 2 | remember | present · passive | dwelling | Dame | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent dwelling=Theme to dame=be' | |||
| 3 | open | past | Minstrel | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | Minstrel not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stand | past | Minstrel | the smoky rafters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath rafter=Location | ||||
| 6 | receive | past | Minstrel not said here | the greetings of the grim Mistress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | ||||
| 7 | greet | the grim Mistress | nom greeting «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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