The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 87
And the bridegroom responded, “Give thanks to Jumala, and may his blessing rest upon this house and all that abide beneath its roof.”
Who acts: bridegroom, that · What happens: respond, give, abide · To what, where: thanks, Jumala · 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 (bridegroom, that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 responded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bridegroom | det |
| 3 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 responded | nsubj |
| 4 | responded | respond | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Give | punct |
| 7 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 responded | ccomp |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Give | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Jumala | case |
| 10 | Jumala | Jumala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 thanks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rest | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rest | cc |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 rest | aux |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rest | compound |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Give | obl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rest | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 abide | cc |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 abide | det:predet |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 abide | nsubj |
| 23 | abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Give | conj |
| 24 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 26 roof | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 roof | nmod:poss |
| 26 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 abide | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 responded | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | past | the bridegroom | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | thanks | Jumala | bridegroom's blessing rest upon this house obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to jumala=Recipient | |||
| 3 | abide in a quote | present | that | beneath thanks's roof | 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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