The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 12
She led the hero into the low-raftered hall and gave him a seat beside the smouldering fire.
Who acts: life · What happens: lead, rafter, give · To what, where: hero, raftered hall, seat, smouldering fire
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 (life), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hero | det |
| 4 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 raftered | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 low | punct |
| 9 | raftered | rafter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hall | amod |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 seat | det |
| 15 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 18 | smouldering | smouldering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fire | compound |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | life | the hero | the raftered hall | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hero=Theme into hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | rafter | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | past | life not said here | a seat | hero | the smouldering fire | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seat=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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