The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 7
Beside the hearth sat Wainamoinen, the prince of minstrels, sad of face, but resigned and wisely contented.
What happens: sit, resign, content · To what, where: Wainamoinen, hearth
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: 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 hearth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hearth | det |
| 3 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prince | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wainamoinen | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 minstrels | case |
| 10 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 prince | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sad | punct |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 minstrels | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sad | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resigned | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 resigned | cc |
| 17 | resigned | resign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 contented | cc |
| 19 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 20 contented | advmod |
| 20 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 resigned | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Wainamoinen | the hearth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent wainamoinen=Theme beside hearth=Location | ||||
| 2 | resign | past | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | content | participle | wisely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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