The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 42
She did everything that would take away his weariness, everything that would add to his comfort.
Who acts: shelter, Pohyola · What happens: do, take away, add, comfort · To what, where: everything, weariness
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, Pohyola), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 did | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | away | away | ADP | _ | 6 take | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 9 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 everything | punct |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 weariness | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 add | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 add | aux |
| 14 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 everything | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 comfort | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 17 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 add | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | shelter | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take away | would | Pohyola's weariness everything | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weariness=Theme | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | would | to Pohyola's comfort | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to comfort=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | comfort | Pohyola | nom comfort «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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