The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 59
It is the multitude of guests assembling, the hosts of friends coming to rejoice with us because it is Ilmarinen’s wedding day.”
Who acts: wind, guests, friends · What happens: be, assemble, come, rejoice · To what, where: multitude, hosts, wedding day
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 (wind, guests, friends), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 multitude | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 multitude | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 multitude | det |
| 4 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 guests | case |
| 6 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 multitude | nmod |
| 7 | assembling | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 guests | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hosts | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hosts | det |
| 10 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 assembling | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 friends | case |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hosts | nmod |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 friends | acl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rejoice | mark |
| 15 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 coming | xcomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 rejoice | obl |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 24 day | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 day | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 day | cop |
| 21 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 day | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Ilmarinen | case |
| 23 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 day | compound |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assembling | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 multitude | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 multitude | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wind | the multitude | of guests | tree rules | |||
| 2 | assemble | gerund | guests not said here | the hosts of friends | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent host=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | friends not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rejoice | to-infinitive | friends not said here | with us | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | wind | Ilmarinen's wedding day | Ilmarinen nmod:poss | 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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