The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 53

Through sleepless nights he bewailed his great misfortune, and through all the hated mornings he lamented the loss of his wife, his mother, his sister, his loved household.

Who acts: floor · What happens: bewail, hate, lament · To what, where: great misfortune, loss

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), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	3 nights	case
2	sleepless	sleepless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nights	amod
3	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bewailed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bewailed	nsubj
5	bewailed	bewail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 misfortune	nmod:poss
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 misfortune	amod
8	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bewailed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lamented	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lamented	cc
11	through	through	ADP	_	15 mornings	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 mornings	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mornings	det
14	hated	hate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 mornings	amod
15	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lamented	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lamented	nsubj
17	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bewailed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 loss	det
19	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lamented	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wife	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loss	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mother	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loss	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sister	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 sister	nmod:poss
28	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loss	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 household	punct
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 household	nmod:poss
31	loved	loved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 household	amod
32	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 loss	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bewailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bewail	past	floor	floor's great misfortune	night	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus
2	hate	participle				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	lament	past	floor	the loss of floor's wife and floor's mother and floor's sister and floor's loved household	morning	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus

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 53

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 53