The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 20
“Surely now we have meat in plenty,” then said the Mistress; “but what shall we do for pleasant drinks to give joy to our guests?
Who acts: we, Mistress · What happens: have, say, do, give · To what, where: meat, plenty, joy, guests · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, Mistress), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 have | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 plenty | case |
| 8 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mistress | det |
| 14 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 do | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 do | obj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 drinks | case |
| 23 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 drinks | amod |
| 24 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 do | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 do | advcl |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 guests | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 guests | nmod:poss |
| 30 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 give | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | we | meat | plenty | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Mistress | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | shall | we | for pleasant drinks; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | joy | our guests | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent joy=Theme to guest=Recipient |
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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