The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 40
Forthwith she led him into her long, low hall; she gave him a seat by the pleasant fire.
Who acts: shelter · What happens: lead, give · To what, where: Pohyola, long low hall, seat
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shelter), 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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 3 led | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hall | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hall | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hall | amod |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 seat | det |
| 16 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fire | det |
| 19 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fire | amod |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | shelter | Pohyola | shelter's long low hall | forthwith property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into hall=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | past | shelter | a seat | Pohyola | by the pleasant fire | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seat=Theme |
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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