The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 60
“Welcome to the great large man who deigns to enter this lowly cottage, this poor little house of wood, this humble hut so unworthy of the presence of one so noble!”
Who acts: great large man, this · What happens: deign, enter, house · To what, where: lowly cottage
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 (great large man, this), 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 | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 2 | Welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 7 man | discourse |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 deigns | nsubj |
| 9 | deigns | deign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 enter | mark |
| 11 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 deigns | xcomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 cottage | det |
| 13 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cottage | amod |
| 14 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enter | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 house | punct |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 house | nsubj |
| 17 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hut | punct |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 hut | det |
| 24 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hut | amod |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | appos |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 unworthy | advmod |
| 27 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hut | amod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 presence | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 presence | det |
| 30 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 unworthy | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 noble | case |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 noble | nsubj |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 noble | advmod |
| 34 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 presence | nmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 hut | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deign in a quote | present | the great large man and poor little house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | enter in a quote | to-infinitive | the great large man and poor little house not said here | this lowly cottage | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cottage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | house in a quote | this | of wood | tree rules |
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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