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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 94

Then, to his great wonder, he saw all the people lying asleep on the ground and the mighty Mistress slumbering in their midst, her eyelids pinned together with magic needles.

Who acts: chin, people, mighty Mistress, eyelids · What happens: see, lie, slumber, pin, wonder · To what, where: people, ground, midst

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 (chin, people, mighty Mistress, eyelids), 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

advmodpunctcasenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjdet:predetdetobjaclxcompcasedetoblccdetamodconjaclcasenmod:possoblpunctnmod:possnsubjconjadvmodcaseamodoblpunctrootThenADV,PUNCTtoADPhisPRONgreatADJwonderNOUN,PUNCThePRONsawVERBallDETtheDETpeopleNOUNlyingVERBasleepADJonADPtheDETgroundNOUNandCCONJtheDETmightyADJMistressNOUNslumberingVERBinADPtheirPRONmidstNOUN,PUNCTherPRONeyelidsNOUNpinnedVERBtogetherADVwithADPmagicADJneedlesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem9 sawadvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Thenpunct
3totoADP_6 wondercase
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 wondernmod:poss
5greatgreatADJDegree=Pos6 wonderamod
6wonderwonderNOUNNumber=Sing9 sawobl
7,,PUNCT_6 wonderpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 sawnsubj
9sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10allallDETPronType=Tot12 peopledet:predet
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 peopledet
12peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur9 sawobj
13lyinglieVERBVerbForm=Ger12 peopleacl
14asleepasleepADJDegree=Pos13 lyingxcomp
15ononADP_17 groundcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 grounddet
17groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing13 lyingobl
18andandCCONJ_21 Mistresscc
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Mistressdet
20mightymightyADJDegree=Pos21 Mistressamod
21MistressmistressNOUNNumber=Sing17 groundconj
22slumberingslumberVERBVerbForm=Ger21 Mistressacl
23ininADP_25 midstcase
24theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 midstnmod:poss
25midstmidstNOUNNumber=Sing22 slumberingobl
26,,PUNCT_29 pinnedpunct
27herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 eyelidsnmod:poss
28eyelidseyelidNOUNNumber=Plur29 pinnednsubj
29pinnedpinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 sawconj
30togethertogetherADV_29 pinnedadvmod
31withwithADP_33 needlescase
32magicmagicADJDegree=Pos33 needlesamod
33needlesneedleNOUNNumber=Plur29 pinnedobl
34..PUNCT_9 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastchinall peoplethento chin's great wondervn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
2liegerundall people not said herethe ground and the mighty Mistressasleep propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3slumbergerundthe mighty Mistress not said hereMistress's midstvn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4pinpastplace's eyelidswith magic needles; together propertyvn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5wonderchinnom wonder «feeling transitive»: 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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