The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 90
Then in anger the Minstrel bade them drop their oars and change seats with the maidens, who had been idly looking on.
Who acts: maidens · What happens: drop, change, look on · To what, where: Minstrel bade, anger, seats
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 (maidens), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 drop | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 anger | case |
| 3 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drop | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bade | det |
| 5 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | compound |
| 6 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drop | obl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 oars | nmod:poss |
| 10 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drop | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 change | cc |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drop | conj |
| 13 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 change | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 maidens | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maidens | det |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 change | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 looking | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 looking | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 looking | aux |
| 21 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 22 looking | advmod |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 maidens | appos |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 looking | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | the Minstrel bade oars | anger | then | oars's oars obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent oar=Theme in anger=Destination | ||
| 2 | change | present | seats | with the maidens | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent seat=Theme with maiden=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | look on | past · perfect · progressive | the maidens | idly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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