The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 61
Then she called to her waiting-maiden, and bade her hasten to bring a light, that all might see the hero and be glad.
Who acts: hail, all · What happens: call, bade, hasten, bring, see, be · To what, where: waiting maiden, hail, light, hero · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hail, all), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 maiden | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 maiden | nmod:poss |
| 6 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maiden | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bade | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bade | cc |
| 11 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bade | obj |
| 13 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bade | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hasten | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 light | det |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bring | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 bring | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hero | det |
| 24 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 glad | cc |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 glad | cop |
| 27 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 see | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | hail | hail's waiting maiden | then | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bade | past | hail not said here | hail | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten | infinitive | hail not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | hail not said here | a light | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | might | all | the hero | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hero=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | all not said here | glad property | 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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