The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 109
All day, all the long night, the guests sat at the table, eating and making merry and listening to the songs and pleasant speeches that were made in honor of the bride, the bridegroom, and the noble hostess.
Who acts: guests · What happens: sit, eat, make, listen, honor · To what, where: table, pleasant speeches, honor, bride
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 (guests), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 night | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guests | det |
| 10 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sat | nsubj |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eating | punct |
| 16 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sat | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 making | cc |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 eating | conj |
| 19 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 making | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 listening | cc |
| 21 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 making | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 songs | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 songs | det |
| 24 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 listening | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 speeches | cc |
| 26 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 speeches | amod |
| 27 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 songs | conj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 made | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | aux:pass |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 speeches | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 honor | case |
| 32 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 bride | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bride | det |
| 35 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 honor | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bridegroom | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 bridegroom | det |
| 38 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bride | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hostess | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hostess | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 hostess | det |
| 42 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hostess | amod |
| 43 | hostess | hostess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the guests | the table | day | the noble hostess conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location | ||
| 2 | eat | gerund | the guests not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the guests not said here | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | listen | gerund | the guests not said here | to the songs and pleasant speeches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | pleasant speeches | honor of the bride and the bridegroom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 6 | honor | the bride and the bridegroom | nom honor «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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