The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 40
He saw no faces of loved ones waiting at the landing-place to greet him.
Who acts: cry, loved ones · What happens: see, love, wait, greet · To what, where: faces, landing place, cry
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 (cry, loved ones), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 faces | det |
| 4 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 faces | nmod |
| 8 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ones | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 11 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 landing | punct |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waiting | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 greet | mark |
| 15 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 waiting | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 greet | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | cry | no faces of loved ones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | loved ones not said here | the landing place | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location | ||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | loved ones not said here | cry | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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