The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 9
And in the village, instead of wretched huts she saw neat cottages and well-filled barns, the homes of contentment and plenty.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: see, fill · To what, where: neat cottages, village
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), 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 | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 huts | punct |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 9 huts | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 instead | fixed |
| 8 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 huts | amod |
| 9 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 village | conj |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cottages | amod |
| 13 | cottages | cottage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 barns | cc |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 filled | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 barns | amod |
| 18 | barns | barn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cottages | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 homes | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 homes | det |
| 21 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cottages | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 contentment | case |
| 23 | contentment | contentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 homes | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 plenty | cc |
| 25 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 contentment | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Dame | neat cottages and filled barns and the homes of contentment and plenty | the village and wretched huts | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cottage=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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