The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 96
And there was the ale, the foaming white ale which the Mistress herself had brewed—it was handed round in great tankards so that each of the heroes present might drink his fill.
Who acts: ale, each · What happens: be, brew, hand round, present, drink · To what, where: Mistress, ale, great tankards, fill
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 (ale, each), 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 | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ale | det |
| 5 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ale | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ale | det |
| 8 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ale | compound |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ale | amod |
| 10 | ale | ale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ale | appos |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 brewed | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Mistress | det |
| 13 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brewed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 brewed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brewed | aux |
| 16 | brewed | brew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ale | acl:relcl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 handed | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 handed | aux:pass |
| 20 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 brewed | conj |
| 21 | round | round | ADV | _ | 20 handed | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tankards | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tankards | amod |
| 24 | tankards | tankard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 handed | obl |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 31 present | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 present | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 heroes | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 heroes | det |
| 30 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 each | nmod |
| 31 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 handed | advcl |
| 32 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 drink | aux |
| 33 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 present | ccomp |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fill | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drink | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the ale | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | brew | past · perfect · passive | the Mistress | the foaming white ale obj; Hero nsubj:pass | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary which=Product | ||||
| 3 | hand round | past · passive | ale | great tankards | round property | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | present | present | each of the heroes | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | drink | might | each of the heroes not said here | bridegroom's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
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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