The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 124
All night long he moaned and wept and called the name of his lost wife whom the beasts had devoured.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: moan, weep, call, lose, devour, name · To what, where: name, beasts, lost wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 3 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 moaned | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 moaned | nsubj |
| 5 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wept | cc |
| 7 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moaned | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 called | cc |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moaned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wife | amod |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 devoured | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beasts | det |
| 18 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 devoured | aux |
| 20 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wife | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | past | Smith | long property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Smith not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | past | Smith not said here | the name of Smith's lost wife | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | devour | past · perfect · passive | the beasts | Smith's lost wife obl | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | name | Smith's lost wife | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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