The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 22
Forthwith she ordered all the tubs in Pohyola to be half filled with water, fresh water from the springs and rivers.
Who acts: multitude · What happens: order, fill · To what, where: tubs, Pohyola
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 (multitude), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 tubs | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tubs | det |
| 6 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Pohyola | case |
| 8 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tubs | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 filled | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 filled | aux:pass |
| 11 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 filled | advmod |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 water | punct |
| 16 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 water | amod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 springs | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 springs | det |
| 20 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 water | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rivers | cc |
| 22 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 springs | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | multitude | all tubs | Pohyola | forthwith property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Theme | ||
| 2 | fill | to-infinitive · passive | multitude not said here | with water and fresh water from the springs and rivers; half property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with water=Instrument |
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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