The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 23
Then into each she poured new barley and added flowers of hops in greatest plenty, stirring all with a magic paddle.
Who acts: multitude · What happens: pour, add, stir · To what, where: new barley, each, flowers, greatest plenty
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 poured | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 each | case |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 poured | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 poured | nsubj |
| 5 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 barley | amod |
| 7 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 poured | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 added | cc |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 poured | conj |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 added | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hops | case |
| 12 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flowers | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 plenty | case |
| 14 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 plenty | amod |
| 15 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 added | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stirring | punct |
| 17 | stirring | stir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 added | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 stirring | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 paddle | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 paddle | det |
| 21 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 paddle | amod |
| 22 | paddle | paddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stirring | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | multitude | new barley | each | then | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent barley=Theme into each=Destination | ||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | multitude not said here | flowers of hops | greatest plenty | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | |||
| 3 | stir | gerund | multitude not said here | with a magic paddle; all property | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V PP ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient with paddle=Co-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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