The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 79
He changed his theme, and the other side of the boat was filled with maidens—pretty girls, their hair in puffs and curls, with belts of copper round their waists and rings of gold upon their fingers.
Who acts: Minstrel · What happens: change, fill · To what, where: theme, other side
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 (Minstrel), 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 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 theme | nmod:poss |
| 4 | theme | theme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 changed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 filled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 filled | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 boat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boat | det |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filled | aux:pass |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 changed | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 maidens | case |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 girls | punct |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girls | amod |
| 19 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 maidens | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hair | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 girls | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 puffs | case |
| 24 | puffs | puff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hair | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 curls | cc |
| 26 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 puffs | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 belts | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 belts | case |
| 29 | belts | belt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 girls | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 copper | case |
| 31 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 belts | nmod |
| 32 | round | round | ADP | _ | 34 waists | case |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 waists | nmod:poss |
| 34 | waists | waist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 girls | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rings | cc |
| 36 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 waists | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 gold | case |
| 38 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rings | nmod |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 fingers | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 41 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 filled | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Minstrel | Minstrel's theme | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theme=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the other side of the boat | with maidens and pretty girls sides's hair in puffs and curls round sides's waists and rings of gold and belts of copper; upon sides's fingers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with maiden=Instrument |
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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