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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 88

They left off playing with their silken tresses, they dropped their combs and their silver brushes and lifted their comely heads to enjoy the Minstrel’s wondrous songs.

Who acts: nymphs, Minstrel · What happens: leave off, play, drop, lift, enjoy, sing · To what, where: combs, comely heads, wondrous songs

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 (nymphs, Minstrel), 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

nsubjcompound:prtxcompcasenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjparataxisnmod:possobjccnmod:posscompoundconjccconjnmod:possamodobjmarkadvcldetnmod:posscaseamodobjpunctrootTheyPRONleftVERBoffADPplayingVERBwithADPtheirPRONsilkenADJtressesNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONdroppedVERBtheirPRONcombsNOUNandCCONJtheirPRONsilverNOUNbrushesNOUNandCCONJliftedVERBtheirPRONcomelyADJheadsNOUNtoPARTenjoyVERBtheDETMinstrelPROPN’sPARTwondrousADJsongsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 leftnsubj
2leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3offoffADP_2 leftcompound:prt
4playingplayVERBVerbForm=Ger2 leftxcomp
5withwithADP_8 tressescase
6theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 tressesnmod:poss
7silkensilkenADJDegree=Pos8 tressesamod
8tressestressNOUNNumber=Plur4 playingobl
9,,PUNCT_11 droppedpunct
10theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 droppednsubj
11droppeddropVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 leftparataxis
12theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 combsnmod:poss
13combscombNOUNNumber=Plur11 droppedobj
14andandCCONJ_17 brushescc
15theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 brushesnmod:poss
16silversilverNOUNNumber=Sing17 brushescompound
17brushesbrushNOUNNumber=Plur13 combsconj
18andandCCONJ_19 liftedcc
19liftedliftVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 droppedconj
20theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 headsnmod:poss
21comelycomelyADJDegree=Pos22 headsamod
22headsheadNOUNNumber=Plur19 liftedobj
23totoPART_24 enjoymark
24enjoyenjoyVERBVerbForm=Inf19 liftedadvcl
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Minstreldet
26MinstrelMinstrelPROPNNumber=Sing29 songsnmod:poss
27’s'sPART_26 Minstrelcase
28wondrouswondrousADJDegree=Pos29 songsamod
29songssongNOUNNumber=Plur24 enjoyobj
30..PUNCT_2 leftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leave offpastnymphs = nymphtree rules
2playgerundnymphs = nymph not said herewith nymphs's silken tressesvn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tress=Theme
3droppastnymphs = nymphnymphs's combs and nymphs's silver brushesvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme
4liftpastnymphs = nymph not said herenymphs's comely headsvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5enjoyto-infinitivenymphs = nymph not said herethe Minstrel's wondrous songsvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
6singthe Minstrelnom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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