The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 8
And at her loom the Maid of Beauty plied her daily task, weaving fine blankets for winter wear, and sighing as she looked from her narrow window and out upon the lonely sea and the lonelier land.
Who acts: Maid, Wainamoinen · What happens: ply, weave, sigh, look, task · To what, where: daily task, loom, fine blankets
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 (Maid, Wainamoinen), 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 | _ | 9 plied | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 loom | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 loom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plied | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Maid | det |
| 6 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 plied | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Beauty | case |
| 8 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Maid | nmod |
| 9 | plied | ply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 task | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 task | amod |
| 12 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 weaving | punct |
| 14 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 plied | advcl |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blankets | amod |
| 16 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 weaving | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wear | case |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wear | compound |
| 19 | wear | wear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 weaving | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sighing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sighing | cc |
| 22 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 plied | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 looked | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sighing | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 window | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 window | nmod:poss |
| 28 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 window | amod |
| 29 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sea | cc |
| 31 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 sea | advmod |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 sea | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sea | det |
| 34 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sea | amod |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 window | conj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 land | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 land | det |
| 38 | lonelier | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 land | amod |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 window | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 plied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ply | past | the Maid of Beauty | Wainamoinen's daily task | Wainamoinen's loom | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent task=Recipient | |||
| 2 | weave | gerund | the Maid of Beauty not said here | fine blankets | for winter wear | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blanket=Product for wear=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | sigh | gerund | the Maid of Beauty not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | past | Maid | from Wainamoinen's narrow window and the lonely sea and the lonelier land | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme | ||||
| 5 | task | Wainamoinen | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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