The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 42
All these they brought in great abundance, heaped up on Dame Lokka’s pretty dishes.
Who acts: meats · What happens: bring, heap up · To what, where: these, great abundance
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 (meats), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 these | det:predet |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 brought | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 abundance | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 abundance | amod |
| 7 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heaped | punct |
| 9 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 abundance | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 heaped | compound:prt |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Dame | case |
| 12 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heaped | obl:agent |
| 13 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Dame | flat |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 15 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 16 dishes | advmod |
| 16 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ’s | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | meats = meat | these | great abundance | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | heap up | participle | great abundance not said here | Dame obl:agent | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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