The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 30
In the ovens loaves of bread in great plenty were baking for the banquet.
What happens: bake · To what, where: ovens loaves
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 loaves | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 loaves | det |
| 3 | ovens | oven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loaves | compound |
| 4 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 baking | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bread | case |
| 6 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loaves | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 plenty | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plenty | amod |
| 9 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bread | nmod |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 baking | aux |
| 11 | baking | bake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 banquet | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 banquet | det |
| 14 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 baking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | past · progressive | the ovens loaves of bread in great plenty | for the banquet | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for banquet=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/27/30/