The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 1
Beside the door of Ilmarinen’s dwelling the women of the household were assembled.
What happens: dwell, assemble · To what, where: women
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ’s | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ilmarinen | case |
| 5 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 door | nmod |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ’s | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 women | det |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 household | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 household | det |
| 12 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 women | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assembled | aux:pass |
| 14 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dwelling | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | assemble | past · passive | the women of the household | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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