The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 58

He ate little, slept little, talked not at all, mingled never with his friends and neighbors.

Who acts: Beauty · What happens: eat, not talk, not mingle · To what, where: little, all

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 (Beauty), 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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
5	slept	slept	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 little	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talked	punct
8	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 talked	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 talked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mingled	punct
13	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 mingled	advmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 friends	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friends	nmod:poss
17	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mingled	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 neighbors	cc
19	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 friends	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Beauty	little			tree rules
2	not talk	past	Beauty not said here		all		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not mingle	past	Beauty not said here			with Beauty's friends and neighbors	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with friend=Co-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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 58