The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 19

There he saw an old woman resting on a couch, while another woman was spinning by the fire.

Who acts: Minstrel, old woman, woman · What happens: see, rest, spin · To what, where: old woman, couch

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minstrel, old woman, woman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
7	resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 couch	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 couch	det
10	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 resting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spinning	punct
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 spinning	mark
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spinning	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spinning	aux
16	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 saw	advcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spinning	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Minstrel	a old woman	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	rest	gerund	a old woman not said here		a couch		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on couch=Location
3	spin	past · progressive	another woman			by the fire	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by fire=Trajectory

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 19