The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 8
In this house the fires were kindled, the tables were set up, and the feast was prepared.
Who acts: house, feast · What happens: kindle, set up, be · To what, where: fires, tables, house
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 (house, feast), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fires | det |
| 5 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kindled | aux:pass |
| 7 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 house | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 house | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tables | det |
| 10 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 set | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux:pass |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepared | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prepared | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prepared | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 prepared | cop |
| 19 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 set | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past · passive | this house not said here | the fires | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | set up | past · passive | the tables | this house | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the feast | prepared 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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