The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 113
He put his arm around her waist, but she did not return his caress.
Who acts: Smith, maid · What happens: put, not return, caress · To what, where: arm, waist, caress
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, maid), 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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arm | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 waist | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 waist | nmod:poss |
| 7 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 return | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 return | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 return | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 return | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 return | advmod |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 put | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 caress | nmod:poss |
| 15 | caress | caress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 return | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Smith | Smith's arm | maid's waist | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme around waist=Destination | |||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | maid | Smith's caress | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caress=Theme | ||||
| 3 | caress | Smith | nom caress «act 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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