The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 3
Sister Anniki, maid of the morning, was assorting the week’s washing and toying with the ribbons in her hair.
Who acts: Sister, week · What happens: assort, toy, wash · To what, where: washing, hair
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 (Sister, week), 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 | Sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assorting | nsubj |
| 2 | Anniki | Anniki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sister | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maid | punct |
| 4 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sister | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 maid | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sister | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 assorting | aux |
| 10 | assorting | assort | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 week | det |
| 12 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 washing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 week | case |
| 14 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 assorting | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 toying | cc |
| 16 | toying | toy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 assorting | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 ribbons | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ribbons | det |
| 19 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 toying | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 toying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 assorting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assort | past · progressive | Sister and maid of the morning | the week's washing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | toy | gerund | Sister and maid of the morning not said here | maid's hair | with the ribbons | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ribbon=Theme | |||
| 3 | wash | the week | nom washing «act transitive»: 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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