The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 26
And she called the serving-men to store the ale safely away in rock-walled cellars till the time for the wedding feast.
Who acts: multitude · What happens: call, store, wall · To what, where: serving men, ale, walled cellars · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 5 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 serving | punct |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 store | mark |
| 9 | store | store | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ale | det |
| 11 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 store | obj |
| 12 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 store | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cellars | case |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walled | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 rock | punct |
| 17 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 cellars | amod |
| 18 | cellars | cellar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 store | obl |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 store | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 feast | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 24 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feast | compound |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | multitude | the serving men | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | store | to-infinitive | multitude not said here | the ale | walled cellars | time | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ale=Theme in cellar=Location | |
| 3 | wall | participle | rock compound | tree rules |
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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