The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 19
Six strong sledges could scarcely hold the fat that was rendered from him.
Who acts: Six strong sledges · What happens: hold, render · To what, where: fat
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 (Six strong sledges), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sledges | nummod |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sledges | amod |
| 3 | sledges | sledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hold | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hold | aux |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 6 hold | advmod |
| 6 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fat | det |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rendered | aux:pass |
| 11 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rendered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | could | Six strong sledges | the fat | scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | |||
| 2 | render | past · passive | the fat | from bull | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location |
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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