The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 1
Long were the speeches, lengthy were the songs, and many were the stories to which the people listened and the patient bride and bridegroom hearkened.
Who acts: speeches, people, patient bride · What happens: be, listen, hearken · To what, where: lengthy songs, many stories
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speeches, people, patient bride), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 lengthy | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lengthy | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 speeches | det |
| 4 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lengthy | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lengthy | punct |
| 6 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 songs | amod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 songs | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 songs | det |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stories | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stories | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stories | amod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stories | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stories | det |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 songs | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 listened | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 listened | nsubj |
| 20 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stories | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hearkened | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bride | det |
| 23 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bride | amod |
| 24 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hearkened | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bridegroom | cc |
| 26 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bride | conj |
| 27 | hearkened | hearken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 listened | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 songs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the speeches | lengthy, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the lengthy songs and the many stories | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the many stories | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | listen | past | the people | to the many stories | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hearken | past | the patient bride and bridegroom | 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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