The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 32

She was sure that the children and some of the old men and old women were her own subjects—she had seen them every day of their lives, but never in so jolly a mood as now.

Who acts: Dame, children · What happens: be, see, not jolly · To what, where: own subjects, mood

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 (Dame, children), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 seen	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 subjects	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 some	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 children	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 men	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 men	amod
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 some	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 women	cc
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 women	amod
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 men	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 subjects	cop
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 subjects	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 subjects	amod
19	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seen	nsubj:pass
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sure	ccomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	obj
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	obl:unmarked
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 lives	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lives	nmod:poss
29	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 day	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 jolly	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 jolly	cc
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 jolly	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	32 never	fixed
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 jolly	advmod
35	jolly	jolly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mood	det
37	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 jolly	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 now	case
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 jolly	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dame			sure property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the children	Dame's own subjects		Dame nmod:poss	tree rules
3	see	past · perfect · passive		Dame's own subjects	day	Dame nsubj; children = child obj	tree rules
4	not jolly	infinitive	Dame not said here	a mood			tree rules

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 32