The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 123

All night long he sat beside the couch, holding the maiden’s hands and breathing his own warm breath into her face.

Who acts: Smith · What happens: sit, hold, breathe · To what, where: couch, hands, own warm breath, face

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), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 night	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	beside	beside	ADP	_	8 couch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 couch	det
8	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holding	punct
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hands	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 maiden	case
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 holding	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 breathing	cc
16	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 holding	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 breath	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breath	amod
19	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 breath	amod
20	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breathing	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 face	nmod:poss
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breathing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past	Smith		the couch	night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside couch=Location
2	hold	gerund	Smith not said here	the maiden's hands			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	breathe	gerund	Smith not said here	Smith's own warm breath	maid's face		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 123