The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 111

And so saying, he gave her a dress of feathers—a dress of wondrous beauty, well-fitting and soft and suited to one who lives in northern climates by icy seas.

Who acts: forgetful · What happens: say, give, suit, live · To what, where: dress, Sampo, one, northern climates · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forgetful), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 saying	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 saying	advmod
3	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	nsubj
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	ccomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dress	det
9	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 feathers	case
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dress	nmod
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 dress	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dress	det
14	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dress	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 beauty	case
16	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beauty	amod
17	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dress	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fitting	punct
19	well	well	INTJ	_	21 fitting	discourse
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fitting	punct
21	fitting	fitting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gave	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 soft	cc
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fitting	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 suited	cc
25	suited	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gave	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 one	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 suited	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 lives	nsubj
29	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 one	acl:relcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 climates	case
31	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 climates	amod
32	climates	climate	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lives	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 seas	case
34	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 seas	amod
35	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lives	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	past	forgetful	a dress of feathers and a dress of wondrous beauty	Sampo			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient dress=Theme
3	suit	past	forgetful not said here	one				tree rules
4	live	present				northern climates	by icy seas; who nsubj	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in climate=Location

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 Triumph of Music, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 111