The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 107
Her feet were well-formed and comely, yet they would not support her, she could not stand.
Who acts: feet, heat · What happens: form, not support, not stand · To what, where: feet, heat
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, heat), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 formed | aux:pass |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 formed | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 comely | cc |
| 8 | comely | comely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 formed | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 support | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 support | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 support | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 support | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 support | advmod |
| 14 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 formed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 support | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stand | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stand | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 stand | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stand | advmod |
| 20 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 support | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past · passive | heat's feet | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not support | would | feet = foot | heat | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not stand | could | heat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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