The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 74
On her right sat Anniki, the maid of the morning, and on her left was Ilmarinen’s wife and mistress whom he had won in the far-off North Land.
Who acts: Anniki · What happens: sit, be, win · To what, where: Anniki, right, wife, left, far North Land
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 (Anniki), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 right | nmod:poss |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 maid | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maid | det |
| 8 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Anniki | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maid | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wife | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 left | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 left | nmod:poss |
| 16 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wife | cop |
| 18 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Ilmarinen | case |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mistress | cc |
| 22 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wife | conj |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 won | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 won | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 won | aux |
| 26 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wife | acl:relcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Land | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Land | det |
| 29 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 Land | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Land | punct |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 Land | case |
| 32 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Land | compound |
| 33 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 won | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Anniki | Dame's right | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent anniki=Theme on right=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Ilmarinen's wife and mistress | Dame's left | Ilmarinen nmod:poss; mistress conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | win | past · perfect | Anniki | Ilmarinen's wife and mistress | the far North Land | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality |
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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