The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 73
In the farmhouse the Smith’s mother, Dame Lokka, was sitting in sweet content.
What happens: sit · To what, where: farmhouse
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 farmhouse | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmhouse | det |
| 3 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Smith | det |
| 5 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Smith | case |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 farmhouse | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dame | punct |
| 9 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | appos |
| 10 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dame | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 farmhouse | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sitting | aux |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 content | case |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 content | amod |
| 16 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the farmhouse | in sweet content | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in farmhouse=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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