The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 71
She brought torches of the purest wax, white and clear, and held them before the Mistress, before the waiting hero.
Who acts: waiting maiden · What happens: bring, hold · To what, where: torches
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), 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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wax | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wax | det |
| 6 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 wax | amod |
| 7 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 torches | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wax | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clear | cc |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 white | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 held | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 Mistress | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mistress | det |
| 18 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hero | punct |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 hero | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hero | det |
| 22 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hero | compound |
| 23 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | waiting maiden = maiden | torches of the purest wax | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent torch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | waiting maiden = maiden not said here | torches = torch | before the Mistress; before the waiting hero | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme before mistress=Location |
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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