The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 65
And the fifty maidens hid their faces in their bosoms and echoed the hopeless cry, “We are lost!”
Who acts: fifty maidens, maidens · What happens: hide, echo, lose, bosom · To what, where: faces, bosoms, hopeless cry, We · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty maidens, maidens), 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 | _ | 5 hid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 maidens | nummod |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hid | nsubj |
| 5 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 faces | nmod:poss |
| 7 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hid | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bosoms | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bosoms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bosoms | bosom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hid | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 echoed | cc |
| 12 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hid | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cry | det |
| 14 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cry | amod |
| 15 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 echoed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 18 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux:pass |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 echoed | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the fifty maidens | maidens's faces | maidens's bosoms | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent face=Patient in bosom=Location | |||
| 2 | echo | past | the fifty maidens not said here | the hopeless cry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present · passive | We | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | bosom | maidens = maiden | nom bosom «state 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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