The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 52
She was not with those who stood at the door to welcome the conquering hero.
Who acts: Maid · What happens: not be, stand, welcome, conquer · To what, where: door, conquering hero
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maid), 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 | 5 those | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 those | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 those | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 those | case |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 those | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 welcome | mark |
| 12 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stood | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hero | det |
| 14 | conquering | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hero | amod |
| 15 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 welcome | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | Maid | with those | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the door | who nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive | the conquering hero | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Theme | |||||
| 4 | conquer | gerund | vn subjugate-42.3 «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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