The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 58
But the wife and mistress stamps her foot with anger.
Who acts: wife · What happens: stamp · To what, where: foot
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stamps | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stamps | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mistress | cc |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | conj |
| 6 | stamps | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stamps | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 anger | case |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stamps | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stamps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stamp | present | the wife and mistress | mistress's foot | with anger | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Destination with anger=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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