The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 130
He took the Golden Maiden gently in his arms, he smoothed the drapery about her, and carried her to his old friend, the Minstrel.
Who acts: body · What happens: take, smooth, carry · To what, where: Golden Maiden, arms, drapery, place, old friend
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 (body), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | 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 took | obj |
| 6 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 smoothed | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smoothed | nsubj |
| 12 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drapery | det |
| 14 | drapery | drapery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smoothed | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smoothed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 friend | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 friend | amod |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Minstrel | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Minstrel | det |
| 27 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 friend | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | body | the Golden Maiden | body's arms | gently property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent maiden=Value in arm=Location | ||
| 2 | smooth | past | body | the drapery | about place | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent drapery=Patient | |||
| 3 | carry | past | body not said here | place | body's old friend | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to friend=Destination |
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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