The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 32
Then the Mistress, the wise but loveless one, sent out her messengers to invite the guests.
Who acts: wise one · What happens: send out, invite · To what, where: messengers, guests, Mistress
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 (wise one), 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 | 3 Mistress | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mistress | det |
| 3 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 6 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 loveless | cc |
| 8 | loveless | loveless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wise | conj |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Mistress | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sent | compound:prt |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 messengers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 invite | mark |
| 16 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 guests | det |
| 18 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 invite | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mistress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | participle | the wise one not said here | multitude's messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | the wise one not said here | the guests | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient |
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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