The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 9
Here, back and forth upon the planking, the aged Mistress walked, pondering, planning, instructing, commanding.
Who acts: aged Mistress · What happens: walk, ponder, instruct, command · To what, where: planning · 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 (aged Mistress), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 walked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 back | punct |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 forth | cc |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 1 Here | conj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 planking | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 planking | det |
| 8 | planking | planking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mistress | det |
| 11 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Mistress | amod |
| 12 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walked | nsubj |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pondering | punct |
| 15 | pondering | ponder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 walked | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 planning | punct |
| 17 | planning | planning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pondering | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 instructing | punct |
| 19 | instructing | instruct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pondering | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 commanding | punct |
| 21 | commanding | command | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 instructing | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the aged Mistress | here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ponder | gerund | the aged Mistress not said here | planning | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other | gerund | the aged Mistress not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | command | gerund | the aged Mistress not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
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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