The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 110
Much good advice was given to her who had lately been the Maid of Beauty but was now the Bride of Beauty: how she should keep her husband’s house in order; how she should obey and serve him; how she should love and cherish her mother-in-law and all the members of her family.
Who acts: bride · What happens: give, have, be, keep, obey, serve · To what, where: good advice, Maid, Bride, house, order, husband
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 (bride), 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 | Much | much | ADV | _ | 2 good | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 advice | amod |
| 3 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 had | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 had | nmod:poss |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | advcl |
| 10 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 13 Maid | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 Maid | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maid | det |
| 13 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Beauty | case |
| 15 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Maid | nmod |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 Bride | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Bride | cop |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Bride | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Bride | det |
| 20 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Beauty | case |
| 22 | Beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Bride | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 keep | punct |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 keep | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 keep | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 keep | aux |
| 27 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | parataxis |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 husband | nmod:poss |
| 29 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 husband | case |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 order | case |
| 33 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 keep | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 obey | punct |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 obey | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 obey | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 obey | aux |
| 38 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 keep | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 serve | cc |
| 40 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 obey | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 serve | obj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 love | punct |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 love | advmod |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 love | nsubj |
| 45 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 love | aux |
| 46 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 keep | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 cherish | cc |
| 48 | cherish | cherish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 love | conj |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 mother | nmod:poss |
| 50 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 cherish | obj |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 law | punct |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 law | case |
| 53 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 52 in | punct |
| 54 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 mother | nmod |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 members | cc |
| 56 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 58 members | det:predet |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 members | det |
| 58 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 mother | conj |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 family | case |
| 60 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 family | nmod:poss |
| 61 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 members | nmod |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | good advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | bride nmod:poss; who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | the Maid | of Beauty; lately property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the Bride | now | of Beauty | tree rules | |||
| 5 | keep | should | bride | bride's husband's house | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Location | |||
| 6 | obey | should | bride | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | serve | infinitive | bride not said here | husband | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | love | should | bride | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 9 | cherish | infinitive | bride not said here | bride's mother and all members of bride's family | law | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus |
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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