The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 81
They could see the Mistress herself, even Dame Louhi, sitting in the high seat at the stern and shouting her commands to the crew.
Who acts: heroes, Mistress · What happens: see, sit, shout, command · To what, where: Mistress, high seat, commands, crew · 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 (heroes, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mistress | det |
| 5 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 see | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dame | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 Dame | advmod |
| 9 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 10 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dame | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 see | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 seat | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 seat | det |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 seat | amod |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 stern | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stern | det |
| 19 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shouting | cc |
| 21 | shouting | shout | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 sitting | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 commands | nmod:poss |
| 23 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shouting | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 crew | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crew | det |
| 26 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shouting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | heroes = hero | the Mistress | Mistress obl; Dame obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mistress=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the high seat | at the stern | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | Mistress's commands | the crew | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Topic to crew=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | command | Mistress | nom command «communication 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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