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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 31

All day, all night, the fires were glowing; all day, all night, the bakers, the brewers, the kitchen maids were running hither and thither, each busily working, each busily preparing his part of the wonderful feast.

Who acts: fires, kitchen maids, each · What happens: glow, run, work, prepare · To what, where: bakers, part

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 (fires, kitchen maids, each), 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

detobl:unmarkedpunctdetconjpunctdetnsubjauxadvclpunctdetoblpunctdetoblpunctdetoblpunctdetconjpunctdetcompoundnsubjauxconjadvmodccconjpunctnsubjadvmodpunctnsubjadvmodadvclnmod:possobjcasedetamodnmodpunctrootAllDETdayNOUN,PUNCTallDETnightNOUN,PUNCTtheDETfiresNOUNwereAUXglowingVERB;PUNCTallDETdayNOUN,PUNCTallDETnightNOUN,PUNCTtheDETbakersNOUN,PUNCTtheDETbrewersNOUN,PUNCTtheDETkitchenNOUNmaidsNOUNwereAUXrunningVERBhitherADVandCCONJthitherADV,PUNCTeachDETbusilyADVworkingVERB,PUNCTeachDETbusilyADVpreparingVERBhisPRONpartNOUNofADPtheDETwonderfulADJfeastNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AllallDETPronType=Tot2 daydet
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing10 glowingobl:unmarked
3,,PUNCT_5 nightpunct
4allallDETPronType=Tot5 nightdet
5nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing2 dayconj
6,,PUNCT_2 daypunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 firesdet
8firesfireNOUNNumber=Plur10 glowingnsubj
9werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 glowingaux
10glowingglowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 workingadvcl
11;;PUNCT_13 daypunct
12allallDETPronType=Tot13 daydet
13daydayNOUNNumber=Sing10 glowingobl
14,,PUNCT_16 nightpunct
15allallDETPronType=Tot16 nightdet
16nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing10 glowingobl
17,,PUNCT_19 bakerspunct
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 bakersdet
19bakersbakerNOUNNumber=Plur10 glowingobl
20,,PUNCT_22 brewerspunct
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 brewersdet
22brewersbrewerNOUNNumber=Plur19 bakersconj
23,,PUNCT_28 runningpunct
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 maidsdet
25kitchenkitchenNOUNNumber=Sing26 maidscompound
26maidsmaidNOUNNumber=Plur28 runningnsubj
27werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 runningaux
28runningrunVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 glowingconj
29hitherhitherADV_28 runningadvmod
30andandCCONJ_31 thithercc
31thitherthitherADV_29 hitherconj
32,,PUNCT_35 workingpunct
33eacheachDETPronType=Tot35 workingnsubj
34busilybusilyADV_35 workingadvmod
35workingworkVERBVerbForm=Gerrootroot
36,,PUNCT_39 preparingpunct
37eacheachDETPronType=Tot39 preparingnsubj
38busilybusilyADV_39 preparingadvmod
39preparingprepareVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 workingadvcl
40hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 partnmod:poss
41partpartNOUNNumber=Sing39 preparingobj
42ofofADP_45 feastcase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 feastdet
44wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos45 feastamod
45feastfeastNOUNNumber=Sing41 partnmod
46..PUNCT_35 workingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1glowpast · progressivethe firesthe bakers and the brewersday; nightvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2runpast · progressivethe kitchen maidsthitherhither propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3workgerundeachbusily propertyvn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4preparegerundeachPohyola's part of the wonderful feastbusily propertyvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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