The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 91
Then, as one accustomed to entertaining a multitude, the wise old Mistress feasted her guests in the noblest fashion.
Who acts: one, wise old Mistress · What happens: accustom, entertain, feast · To what, where: multitude, guests, noblest fashion
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 (one, wise old 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 accustomed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 accustomed | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 accustomed | nsubj |
| 5 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 7 entertaining | mark |
| 7 | entertaining | entertain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 accustomed | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 multitude | det |
| 9 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entertaining | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feasted | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Mistress | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Mistress | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Mistress | amod |
| 14 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feasted | nsubj |
| 15 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accustomed | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 guests | nmod:poss |
| 17 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 feasted | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 fashion | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fashion | det |
| 20 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 fashion | amod |
| 21 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feasted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 accustomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | participle | one | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | entertain | gerund | one not said here | a multitude | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus multitude=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feast | past | the wise old Mistress | multitude's guests | the noblest fashion | 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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