The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 40
They led the noble pair into the house, the men and women singing joyously, the children dancing before them.
Who acts: people, women, children · What happens: lead, sing, dance · To what, where: noble pair, house
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 (people, women, children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pair | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pair | amod |
| 5 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 men | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 house | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 women | cc |
| 13 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 men | conj |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 women | acl |
| 15 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 14 singing | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 children | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 men | conj |
| 19 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 children | acl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dancing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | people | the noble pair | the house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pair=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | women not said here | joyously property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dance | gerund | the children not said here | before people | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location |
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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