The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 72
The pitying waves closed over him; he was with his loved ones in the halls of rest.
Who acts: master · What happens: pity, close, love, be · To what, where: pitying waves, halls
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 waves | det |
| 2 | pitying | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 waves | amod |
| 3 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waves | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 closed | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ones | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ones | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ones | cop |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ones | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ones | nmod:poss |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waves | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 halls | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 halls | det |
| 16 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ones | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 halls | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pity | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | close | participle | the pitying waves and master's loved ones not said here | over master | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | master | the halls of rest | with master's loved ones | tree rules |
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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