The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 80
Then, while food was brought to him and the people of the household both high and low sat round him listening, he told the story of his adventure by the shore of Tuonela’s river.
Who acts: people, Beauty, shore · What happens: bring, sit, listen, tell, adventure · To what, where: food, Beauty, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, Beauty, shore), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 told | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 brought | mark |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 told | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 household | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 household | det |
| 14 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 15 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 16 high | cc:preconj |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 household | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 low | cc |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 high | conj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | conj |
| 20 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sat | obl |
| 22 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sat | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 story | det |
| 27 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 told | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 adventure | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 30 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 story | nmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 shore | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shore | det |
| 33 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 adventure | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 river | case |
| 35 | Tuonela | Tuonela | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 river | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Tuonela | case |
| 37 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shore | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | food | Beauty | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the people of the household | round Beauty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | the people of the household not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Beauty | the story of Beauty's adventure by the shore of Tuonela's river | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | |||
| 5 | adventure | the shore of Tuonela's river | Beauty | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=patient by=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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