The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 14
The unlovely Mistress, the swordsmen and the spearsmen, the old men and the married women, the young men and the half-grown girls, and the little children—he left them all sweetly slumbering, forgetful, senseless, harmless.
Who acts: unlovely Mistress · What happens: grow, leave, slumber · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unlovely Mistress), 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 | 3 Mistress | det |
| 2 | unlovely | unlovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mistress | amod |
| 3 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mistress | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swordsmen | det |
| 6 | swordsmen | swordsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Mistress | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spearsmen | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spearsmen | det |
| 9 | spearsmen | spearsmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swordsmen | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swordsmen | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 women | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 16 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 women | amod |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swordsmen | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swordsmen | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 girls | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girls | det |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 grown | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 half | punct |
| 26 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 girls | amod |
| 27 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swordsmen | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 children | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 children | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 children | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 children | amod |
| 32 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Mistress | conj |
| 33 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 left | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | nsubj |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | obj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 slumbering | advmod |
| 38 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 39 slumbering | advmod |
| 39 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 left | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 forgetful | punct |
| 41 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 slumbering | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 senseless | punct |
| 43 | senseless | senseless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 forgetful | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 harmless | punct |
| 45 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 forgetful | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | half compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | past | the unlovely Mistress and the swordsmen and the spearsmen and the old men and the married women and the young men and the grown girls and the little children | children = child | sleep nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | slumber | gerund | the unlovely Mistress and the swordsmen and the spearsmen and the old men and the married women and the young men and the grown girls and the little children not said here | sweetly property | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=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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