The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 4
And she who had been the Maid of Beauty—she who was now the wife and helpmate of the master Smith—was busy at the churn.
Who acts: Dame, Maid · What happens: be · To what, where: Maid, churn
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 (Dame, Maid), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Maid | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Maid | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Maid | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Maid | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Maid | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Maid | det |
| 7 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 busy | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Beauty | case |
| 9 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Maid | nmod |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 busy | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 busy | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 busy | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 busy | cop |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 busy | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wife | det |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 busy | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 helpmate | cc |
| 18 | helpmate | helpmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wife | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Smith | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Smith | det |
| 21 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Smith | compound |
| 22 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 helpmate | nmod |
| 23 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 wife | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 busy | cop |
| 25 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 churn | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 churn | det |
| 28 | churn | churn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 busy | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | Dame | the Maid | of Beauty; who nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Maid | the churn | now | maid nsubj; who nsubj; the wife and helpmate of the master Smith nsubj; busy property | tree rules |
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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