The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 85
“Now let all give thanks to Jumala, the gracious,” said the Mistress, and her unlovely face grew pleasanter for the moment.
Who acts: all, Mistress, unlovely face · What happens: let, give, say, grow · To what, where: all, thanks · 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 (all, Mistress, unlovely face), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Jumala | case |
| 8 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 thanks | vocative |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gracious | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gracious | det |
| 11 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Jumala | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Mistress | det |
| 16 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 grew | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 grew | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | unlovely | unlovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 face | amod |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | pleasanter | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 grew | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 moment | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moment | det |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pleasanter | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | all | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | all not said here | thanks to Jumala | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | Jumala's unlovely face | pleasant property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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