The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Caldron, sentence 22
Their mouths were open and their eyes were staring at the rafters where hung long rows of smoked salmon, slabs of bacon, and dried herbs of magic power.
Who acts: mouths, eyes · What happens: be, stare, hang, smoke, dry · To what, where: long rows
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 (mouths, 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | cop |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 staring | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 staring | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 staring | aux |
| 9 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 open | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 rafters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rafters | det |
| 12 | rafters | rafter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 staring | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | advmod |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rafters | acl |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rows | amod |
| 16 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hung | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 salmon | case |
| 18 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 salmon | amod |
| 19 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rows | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slabs | punct |
| 21 | slabs | slab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 salmon | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bacon | case |
| 23 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slabs | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 herbs | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 herbs | cc |
| 26 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 herbs | amod |
| 27 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 open | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 power | case |
| 29 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 power | amod |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 herbs | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men's mouths | dried herbs of magic power conj; open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stare | past · progressive | men's eyes | at the rafters | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at rafter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | long rows of smoked salmon and slabs of bacon | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient | |||||
| 4 | smoke | participle | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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