The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 69
The wife and helpmate, she who erstwhile was the Maid of Beauty, is swept away in the storm, is swallowed up, and naught but a blood-stained lock of hair remains to tell of her fate.
Who acts: naught, hair · What happens: be, sweep away, swallow up, stain, remain, tell · To what, where: Maid, wife, storm · 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 (naught, hair), 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 | 16 swept | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 helpmate | cc |
| 4 | helpmate | helpmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 erstwhile | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 erstwhile | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 erstwhile | nsubj |
| 8 | erstwhile | erstwhile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wife | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Maid | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Maid | det |
| 11 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Beauty | case |
| 13 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Maid | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wife | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 swept | aux:pass |
| 16 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 swept | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 storm | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 storm | det |
| 20 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swept | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 swallowed | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 23 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 swept | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 remains | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 remains | cc |
| 27 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 36 remains | nsubj |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 lock | cc |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lock | det |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stained | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 blood | punct |
| 32 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 lock | amod |
| 33 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 naught | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hair | case |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lock | nmod |
| 36 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 swept | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 tell | mark |
| 38 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 remains | xcomp |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 fate | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 fate | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 tell | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Maid | of Beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sweep away | present · passive | the wife and helpmate and the Maid | the storm | away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in storm=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | swallow up | present · passive | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | stain | participle | blood compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remain | present | naught a stained lock of hair | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | naught a stained lock of hair not said here | of hair's fate | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | fate | hair | nom fate «event 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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