The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 108
Thus did the people feast, and thus did the mighty Minstrel sing on Ilmarinen’s happy wedding day.
Who acts: people · What happens: feast, do · To what, where: mighty Minstrel sing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 feast | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feast | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 feast | nsubj |
| 5 | feast | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 did | cc |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 did | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feast | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sing | det |
| 11 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sing | amod |
| 12 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sing | compound |
| 13 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 15 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 day | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Ilmarinen | case |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sing | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feast | past · do-support | the people | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the people not said here | the mighty Minstrel sing | on Ilmarinen's happy wedding day | thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality |
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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