The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 78
“I will do everything as you have bidden me,” answered the serving-man, and he led the steed gently from the courtyard.
Who acts: serving man, you, steed · What happens: do, bid, answer, lead · To what, where: everything, serving man, steed, courtyard · 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 (serving man, you, steed), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 bidden | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bidden | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bidden | aux |
| 9 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | advcl |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 bidden | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bidden | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 bidden | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 serving | punct |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 led | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | nsubj |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steed | det |
| 23 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obj |
| 24 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 21 led | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 courtyard | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 courtyard | det |
| 27 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | the serving man = man | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bid in a quote | present · perfect | you | the serving man = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the serving man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | steed | the steed | the courtyard | gently property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Theme from courtyard=Destination |
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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