The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 61
How can we distinguish him in the great crowd of friends and neighbors?” asked a little waiting-maiden.
Who acts: we · What happens: distinguish, ask · To what, where: bridegroom, great crowd, little waiting maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 distinguish | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 distinguish | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 distinguish | nsubj |
| 4 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 distinguish | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 crowd | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crowd | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 crowd | amod |
| 9 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distinguish | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crowd | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 neighbors | cc |
| 13 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 friends | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 distinguish | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 distinguish | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 maiden | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 maiden | amod |
| 19 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 maiden | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 waiting | punct |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguish | can | we | bridegroom | the great crowd of friends and neighbors | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute he=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | a little waiting maiden | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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