The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 65
She lighted a pine-knot that was always ready, and brought it blazing to her mistress.
Who acts: waiting maiden, pine knot · What happens: light, be, bring, blaze · To what, where: pine knot, knot
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 (waiting maiden, pine knot), 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 lighted | nsubj |
| 2 | lighted | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 knot | det |
| 4 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knot | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 pine | punct |
| 6 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lighted | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ready | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 ready | advmod |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knot | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brought | cc |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lighted | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | obj |
| 15 | blazing | blaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 brought | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 mistress | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blazing | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | waiting maiden = maiden | a pine knot | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a pine knot | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | waiting maiden = maiden not said here | knot | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | waiting maiden = maiden not said here | to waiting maiden's mistress | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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