The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 43
At length, when he had warmed and rested himself and had satisfied his hunger, she ventured to ask him a question.
Who acts: Pohyola, shelter · What happens: warm, rest, satisfy, venture, ask, hunger · To what, where: length, Pohyola, hunger, question
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 (Pohyola, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 warmed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 warmed | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 warmed | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warmed | aux |
| 7 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rested | cc |
| 9 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warmed | conj |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 rested | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 satisfied | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 satisfied | aux |
| 13 | satisfied | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 rested | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hunger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 satisfied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ventured | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ventured | nsubj |
| 18 | ventured | venture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warmed | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 ask | mark |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ventured | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 ask | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 question | det |
| 23 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ask | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 warmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warm | past · perfect | Pohyola | length | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rest | past | Pohyola not said here | Pohyola | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | satisfy | past · perfect | Pohyola not said here | Pohyola's hunger | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | venture | past | shelter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | shelter not said here | a question | Pohyola | tree rules | |||
| 6 | hunger | Pohyola | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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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