The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 84

Without delay the waiting-lads took their appointed places, four at the right hand and four at the left, six in front of him and six behind, and thus they marched lightly and orderly into the dwelling.

Who acts: waiting lads, lads · What happens: delay, take, appoint, march · To what, where: appointed places, dwelling

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 (waiting lads, lads), 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	Without	without	SCONJ	_	2 delay	mark
2	delay	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lads	det
4	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lads	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 waiting	punct
6	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	nsubj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 delay	ccomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 places	nmod:poss
9	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 places	amod
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 four	punct
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 took	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 hand	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 four	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 four	cc
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 four	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 left	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 left	det
21	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 four	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 six	punct
23	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 took	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 front	case
25	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 six	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 front	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 six	cc
29	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 six	conj
30	behind	behind	ADV	_	29 six	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 marched	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 marched	cc
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	35 marched	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 marched	nsubj
35	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
36	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	35 marched	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 orderly	cc
38	orderly	orderly	ADV	_	36 lightly	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 dwelling	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dwelling	det
41	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 marched	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 delay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	delay	present					vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	take	past	the waiting lads	lads's appointed places		four at the right hand obl; six in front of bridegroom obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	appoint	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	march	past	lads = lad		the dwelling	lightly, thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dwelling=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 84

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 84