The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 112

Her color was golden, her neck and legs were like the wild deer’s, her horns were ivory, her eyes were wondrous large, and on her forehead was a disc of steely sunshine.

Who acts: color, neck, eyes · What happens: be · To what, where: disc, forehead

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Caldron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (color, neck, eyes), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 color	nmod:poss
2	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 golden	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 golden	cop
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 golden	punct
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ivory	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 legs	cc
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 neck	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ivory	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	20 ivory	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deer	det
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deer	amod
14	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ivory	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 deer	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ivory	punct
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 horns	nmod:poss
18	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 ivory	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ivory	cop
20	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 golden	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 large	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 large	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 large	cop
25	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 large	amod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ivory	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disc	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 disc	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 forehead	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 forehead	nmod:poss
31	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 disc	obl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 disc	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 disc	det
34	disc	disc	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 large	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sunshine	case
36	steely	steely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sunshine	amod
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 disc	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 golden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	heifer's color			golden property	tree rules
2	is	past	heifer's neck and legs			like the wild deer's ivory; the wild deer nmod:poss; heifer's horns nsubj	tree rules
3	is	past	heifer's eyes			large property	tree rules
4	is a	past		a disc	heifer's forehead	of steely sunshine	tree rules

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 112