The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 101
Instantly the fifty maidens and the fifty stalwart youths, with joyous hearts, renewed their rowing.
Who acts: fifty maidens, hearts · What happens: renew, row · To what, where: rowing
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty maidens, hearts), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 maidens | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 maidens | nummod |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 renewed | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 youths | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youths | det |
| 7 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 youths | nummod |
| 8 | stalwart | stalwart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 youths | compound |
| 9 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 maidens | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hearts | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 hearts | case |
| 12 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hearts | amod |
| 13 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 youths | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 maidens | punct |
| 15 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rowing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rowing | rowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 renewed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 renewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renew | past | the fifty maidens and the fifty stalwart youths and joyous hearts | hearts's rowing | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rowing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | row | hearts = heart | nom rowing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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