The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 80
Conduct the bridegroom to the house and show him the doorway.
Who acts: you · What happens: conduct, show · To what, where: bridegroom, house, doorway
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 | Conduct | conduct | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridegroom | det |
| 3 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Conduct | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Conduct | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 show | cc |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Conduct | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 show | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doorway | det |
| 11 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Conduct | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | imperative | you not said here | the bridegroom | the house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bridegroom=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | infinitive | you not said here | the doorway | bridegroom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient doorway=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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