The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 29
The wife and helpmate goes before, queenly as when men called her the Maid of Beauty.
Who acts: wife, men · What happens: go, call · To what, where: helpmate · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (wife, men), 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 | 5 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 helpmate | cc |
| 4 | helpmate | helpmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 goes | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 8 | queenly | queenly | ADV | _ | 12 called | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 called | mark |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 called | advmod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | nsubj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 goes | parataxis |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 called | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Maid | det |
| 15 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Beauty | case |
| 17 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Maid | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the wife and helpmate | before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past | men | helpmate | the Maid of Beauty xcomp; queenly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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