The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Kantele, sentence 86
Wistfully the little girls, the maidens, the older women, all held the harp in their hands and with their tender fingers swept the harp strings.
What happens: hold, sweep · To what, where: little girls, hands, harp strings
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Kantele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 4 girls | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girls | amod |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 maidens | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maidens | det |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 girls | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 women | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 10 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 women | amod |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 girls | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 girls | punct |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 held | advmod |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 harp | det |
| 16 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 held | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 swept | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 fingers | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fingers | compound |
| 24 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 swept | obl |
| 25 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 strings | det |
| 27 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 strings | compound |
| 28 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 swept | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the little girls and the maidens and the older women | women's hands | the harp obj; all property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent harp=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | sweep | past | the harp strings | with women's tender fingers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Trajectory |
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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