The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 27

Straight ahead, only three leagues farther, the little village of Wainola was nestling warmly in a wooded glen close by the sea; in that village was the snug cottage which the Minstrel called his home; and in that cottage was the fireside around which his friends were sitting and bewailing his absence.

Who acts: little village, village, Minstrel, friends · What happens: nestle, wood, be, call, sit, bewail · To what, where: wooded glen, snug cottage, fireside, cottage, absence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little village, village, Minstrel, friends), 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	Straight	straight	ADV	_	2 ahead	advmod
2	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	15 nestling	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ahead	punct
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leagues	nummod
6	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 farther	obl:unmarked
7	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 nestling	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 village	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 village	amod
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nestling	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Wainola	case
13	Wainola	Wainola	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 village	nmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 nestling	aux
15	nestling	nestle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	15 nestling	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 glen	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 glen	det
19	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 glen	amod
20	glen	glen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nestling	obl
21	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glen	amod
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 close	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 cottage	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	32 cottage	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 village	det
28	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cottage	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cottage	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cottage	det
31	snug	snug	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cottage	amod
32	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nestling	obl
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 called	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Minstrel	det
35	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 called	nsubj
36	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 cottage	acl:relcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 home	nmod:poss
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 called	obj
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 fireside	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fireside	cc
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 cottage	case
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 cottage	det
43	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fireside	obl
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 fireside	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 fireside	det
46	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nestling	obl
47	around	around	ADP	_	48 which	case
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 sitting	obl
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 friends	nmod:poss
50	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 sitting	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 sitting	aux
52	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 fireside	acl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 bewailing	cc
54	bewailing	bewail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 sitting	conj
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 absence	nmod:poss
56	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 bewailing	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 nestling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nestle	past · progressive	the little village of Wainola		a wooded glen	ahead, far, warmly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glen=Location
2	wood	participle					tree rules
3	is	past	that village		the snug cottage		tree rules
4	call	past	the Minstrel	the snug cottage		Minstrel's home obj	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme home=Result
5	is a	past		the fireside	that cottage		tree rules
6	sit	past · progressive	Minstrel's friends		the fireside		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around which=Location
7	bewail	gerund	Minstrel's friends not said here	Minstrel's absence			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer absence=Stimulus
8	absent		Minstrel				nom absence «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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