The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 86
“Give thanks to Jumala, for the hero has passed through the door in safety, he has entered the house of the bride.”
Who acts: you, face · What happens: give, pass, enter · To what, where: thanks, Jumala, hero, door, 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 (you, 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Jumala | case |
| 5 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanks | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hero | det |
| 9 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | aux |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Give | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 door | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 safety | case |
| 16 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 entered | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 entered | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 entered | aux |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Give | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bride | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bride | det |
| 25 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 house | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | thanks | Jumala | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to jumala=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pass in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the hero | the door | in safety | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through door=Destination | |||
| 3 | enter in a quote | present · perfect | face | the house of the bride | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=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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