The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 46

The wife and mistress, she who had been the Maid of Beauty, was sitting in her chamber counting the days that must pass before her husband’s return.

Who acts: wife, days, husband · What happens: have, be, sit, count, pass, return · To what, where: Maid, chamber, return, wife

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, days, husband), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wife	det
2	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mistress	cc
4	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wife	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wife	parataxis
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 Maid	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Maid	det
11	Maid	Maid	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Beauty	case
13	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Maid	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sitting	aux
16	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 Maid	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 chamber	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 chamber	nmod:poss
19	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
20	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sitting	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 days	det
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 counting	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 pass	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pass	aux
25	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 days	acl:relcl
26	before	before	ADP	_	30 return	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 return	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 husband	case
30	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pass	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wife	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	wife					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle		the Maid			of Beauty	tree rules
3	sit	past · progressive			wife's chamber			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=Location
4	count	gerund				day		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
5	pass	must	the days		wife's husband's return			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before return=Location
7	return		wife's husband					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 46

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 46