The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 65
In one hand she carried a bowl of honey and in the other a yellow pitcher brimming full of reindeer’s milk; but she offered neither of these to the Minstrel.
Who acts: Maid, yellow pitcher · What happens: carry, brim, offer · To what, where: bowl, one hand, neither, Minstrel
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, yellow pitcher), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hand | nummod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bowl | det |
| 7 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 honey | case |
| 9 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowl | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 other | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 other | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 other | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 honey | nmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pitcher | det |
| 15 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pitcher | amod |
| 16 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 other | nsubj |
| 17 | brimming | brim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 pitcher | acl |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 brimming | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 milk | case |
| 20 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 milk | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 reindeer | case |
| 22 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 offered | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 offered | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 offered | nsubj |
| 26 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | conj |
| 27 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 offered | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 these | case |
| 29 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 neither | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Minstrel | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Minstrel | det |
| 32 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 offered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Maid | a bowl of honey in the other a yellow pitcher | one hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bowl=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | brim | gerund | a yellow pitcher not said here | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | Maid | neither of these | the Minstrel | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent neither=Theme to minstrel=Goal |
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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