The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 76
And all that were in the house admired its size and its wonderful shape and the mighty teeth that were set in the mighty jaws.
Who acts: that, house · What happens: be, admire, set · To what, where: house, size, mighty teeth, mighty jaws
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 (that, house), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 admired | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 house | det:predet |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 house | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 house | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admired | nsubj |
| 8 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 size | nmod:poss |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 admired | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shape | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shape | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shape | amod |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 size | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 teeth | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teeth | det |
| 17 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 teeth | amod |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 size | conj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 set | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 set | aux:pass |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 jaws | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jaws | det |
| 24 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 jaws | amod |
| 25 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | all house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | all house | house's size and house's wonderful shape and the mighty teeth | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | set | past · passive | the mighty teeth | the mighty jaws | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in jaw=Destination |
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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