The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 11

“Poor men are always fond of gaudy garments,” whispered the mother; and then remembering the law of the hostess she hastened to greet the unwelcome guest.

Who acts: Poor men, mother, life, unwelcome guest · What happens: be, whisper, remember, hasten, greet · To what, where: law, hostess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor men, mother, life, unwelcome guest), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fond	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fond	advmod
6	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 whispered	parataxis
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 garments	case
8	gaudy	gaudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 garments	amod
9	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fond	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fond	punct
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mother	det
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 remembering	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 remembering	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 remembering	advmod
18	remembering	remember	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 whispered	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 law	det
20	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remembering	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 hostess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hostess	det
23	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 law	nmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hastened	nsubj
25	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hostess	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 greet	mark
27	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hastened	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 guest	det
29	unwelcome	unwelcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 guest	compound
30	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 greet	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Poor men			of gaudy garments; always, fond property	tree rules
2	whisper speech: assert	past	the mother				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember	gerund	the mother not said here	the law of the hostess	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent law=Theme
4	hasten	past	life	the hostess not said here			tree rules
5	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	the unwelcome guest				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 11