The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 49
In the farmyard, he found the milking stool and the pails, all battered and scarred and broken; and there, too, he found a long lock of blood-covered hair which he knew too well had once belonged to the Maid of Beauty, the mistress of his household and his life.
Who acts: floor, long lock · What happens: find, batter, scar, break, cover, know · To what, where: milking stool, farmyard, pails, covered hair · 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 (floor, long lock), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 farmyard | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmyard | det |
| 3 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 farmyard | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stool | det |
| 8 | milking | milking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stool | compound |
| 9 | stool | stool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pails | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pails | det |
| 12 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stool | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 battered | punct |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 battered | advmod |
| 15 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pails | acl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scarred | cc |
| 17 | scarred | scar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 battered | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 broken | cc |
| 19 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 scarred | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 there | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 there | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 found | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 too | punct |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 there | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 lock | det |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lock | amod |
| 30 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 belonged | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hair | case |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 covered | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 blood | punct |
| 34 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 hair | amod |
| 35 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lock | nmod |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 knew | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 knew | nsubj |
| 38 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 hair | acl:relcl |
| 39 | too | too | ADV | _ | 40 well | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 knew | advmod |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 belonged | aux |
| 42 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 43 belonged | advmod |
| 43 | belonged | belong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 found | ccomp |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Maid | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Maid | det |
| 46 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 belonged | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Beauty | case |
| 48 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Maid | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 mistress | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 mistress | det |
| 51 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 Maid | appos |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 household | case |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 household | nmod:poss |
| 54 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 mistress | nmod |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 life | cc |
| 56 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 life | nmod:poss |
| 57 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 household | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | floor | the milking stool and the pails | the farmyard | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stool=Topic | |||
| 2 | batter | participle | the pails not said here | all property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | scar | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | find | past | floor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cover | participle | blood compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | know | past | floor | covered hair | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | belong | past · perfect | a long lock of covered hair | to the Maid of Beauty; once property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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