The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 4
She it was who provided the food and the drink; she it was who directed the cooks, the butchers, the brewers, the bakers, the serving maidens; and she it was who invited the guests.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: be, serve · To what, where: Dame
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 (Dame), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 provided | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 provided | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 provided | cop |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 provided | nsubj |
| 5 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 provided | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drink | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drink | det |
| 10 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 food | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 directed | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 directed | nsubj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 directed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 directed | cop |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 directed | nsubj |
| 16 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 provided | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cooks | det |
| 18 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 directed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 butchers | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 butchers | det |
| 21 | butchers | butcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cooks | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 brewers | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brewers | det |
| 24 | brewers | brewer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cooks | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bakers | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bakers | det |
| 27 | bakers | baker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brewers | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 maidens | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 maidens | det |
| 30 | serving | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 maidens | amod |
| 31 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 brewers | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 invited | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 invited | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 invited | nsubj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 invited | cop |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 invited | nsubj |
| 38 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 provided | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 guests | det |
| 40 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 invited | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dame | Mistress nsubj; who nsubj; the food and the drink obj; provide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Dame | Mistress nsubj; who nsubj; the cooks and the butchers and the brewers and the bakers and the serving maidens obj; direct property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | serve | gerund | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past · passive | Dame | Mistress nsubj:pass; who nsubj; the guests obj; invite property | 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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