The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 76
Set three trays of food before him, the first filled with oats, the second with soft hay, the third with finest chaff.
Who acts: you · What happens: set, fill · To what, where: three trays
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 (you), 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 | Set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 trays | nummod |
| 3 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Set | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 food | case |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trays | nmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 oats | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 oats | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 oats | amod |
| 11 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 oats | amod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 oats | case |
| 13 | oats | oat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Set | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 second | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 second | det |
| 16 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 oats | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hay | case |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hay | amod |
| 19 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 second | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 third | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 third | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 oats | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 chaff | case |
| 24 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 chaff | amod |
| 25 | chaff | chaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 third | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | imperative | you not said here | three trays of food | before steed | the first filled oats parataxis | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tray=Theme before he=Destination | ||
| 2 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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