The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 78
In her own chamber Dame Lokka, the best loved of matrons, fell before the pitiless tide.
What happens: love, fall · To what, where: own chamber, pitiless tide
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 chamber | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chamber | amod |
| 4 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loved | obl |
| 5 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 chamber | appos |
| 6 | Lokka | Lokka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Dame | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chamber | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 loved | advmod |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 matrons | case |
| 12 | matrons | matron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 loved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loved | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 tide | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tide | det |
| 17 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tide | amod |
| 18 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | wench's own chamber | of matrons | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the pitiless tide | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before tide=Location |
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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