The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 112
He lifted the Golden Maiden and placed her in the cushioned seat wherein his lost wife had often reposed.
Who acts: Smith, lost wife · What happens: lift, place, cushion, lose, repose · To what, where: Golden Maiden, maid, cushioned seat
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 (Smith, lost 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Maiden | det |
| 4 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Maiden | amod |
| 5 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 placed | cc |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 placed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 seat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 seat | det |
| 11 | cushioned | cushion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 seat | amod |
| 12 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 13 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 reposed | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 wife | amod |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reposed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reposed | aux |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 reposed | advmod |
| 19 | reposed | repose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 placed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Smith | the Golden Maiden | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | past | Smith not said here | maid | the cushioned seat | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in seat=Destination | |||
| 3 | cushion | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | repose | past · perfect | Smith's lost wife | often, wherein property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=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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