The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 50

I sat by her fireside; I listened to her words; I ate at her table.

Who acts: I, woman · What happens: sit, listen, eat, word · To what, where: table

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 fireside	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fireside	nmod:poss
5	fireside	fireside	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 listened	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 listened	nsubj
8	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 words	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 words	nmod:poss
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listened	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ate	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 ate	nsubj
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 table	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 table	nmod:poss
17	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ate	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	I		by woman's fireside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location
2	listen	past	I		to woman's words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
3	eat	past	I	woman's table		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	word		woman			nom word «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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 50