The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 95

The heroes wept, old men and matrons, swaggering youths and timid maidens, half-grown boys and lovely little girls, all wept, for their hearts were melted.

Who acts: heroes · What happens: weep, swagger, grow, melt · To what, where: old men, youths, hearts

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 (heroes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 heroes	det
2	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wept	nsubj
3	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 men	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wept	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 matrons	cc
8	matrons	matron	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 men	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swaggering	punct
10	swaggering	swagger	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 wept	advcl
11	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swaggering	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 maidens	cc
13	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maidens	amod
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 youths	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boys	punct
16	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 grown	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 half	punct
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 boys	amod
19	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 youths	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 girls	cc
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girls	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 girls	amod
23	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 youths	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wept	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 wept	advmod
26	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wept	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 melted	punct
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 melted	mark
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hearts	nmod:poss
30	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 melted	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 melted	aux:pass
32	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 wept	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the heroes	old men and matrons		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	swagger	gerund	the heroes not said here	youths and timid maidens and grown boys and lovely little girls		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location youth=Theme
3	grow	participle			half compound	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	weep	past	the heroes not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	melt	past · passive		heroes's hearts		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/95/

🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 95