The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 90
He sat down by the side of the blushing bride, the Maid of Beauty, while all the guests clapped their hands and shouted for joy.
Who acts: bridegroom, guests · What happens: sit down, blush, clap, shout · To what, where: hands
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, guests), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 sat | compound:prt |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bride | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bride | det |
| 9 | blushing | blush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 bride | amod |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Maid | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Maid | det |
| 13 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bride | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Beauty | case |
| 15 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Maid | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clapped | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 clapped | mark |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 guests | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 guests | det |
| 20 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clapped | nsubj |
| 21 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 clapped | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shouted | cc |
| 25 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 clapped | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shouted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | bridegroom | by the side of the blushing bride | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 2 | blush | gerund | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | clap | past | all guests | guests's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | all guests not said here | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |
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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