The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 33
But who were those noisy young men and maidens, dressed in foreign garb, who formed the greater portion of the noisy company?
Who acts: foreign garb · What happens: be, dress, form · To what, where: noisy young men, foreign garb, greater portion
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 (foreign garb), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 men | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 men | cop |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 men | det |
| 5 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 maidens | cc |
| 9 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 men | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
| 11 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 men | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 garb | case |
| 13 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 garb | amod |
| 14 | garb | garb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dressed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 formed | nsubj |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garb | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 portion | det |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 portion | amod |
| 20 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 company | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 company | det |
| 23 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 company | amod |
| 24 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 portion | nmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that noisy young men and maidens | who nsubj; maidens conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | that noisy young men and maidens not said here | foreign garb | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | form | past | foreign garb | the greater portion of the noisy company | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location portion=Theme |
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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