The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 10

Her cheeks were like the dawn of a summer’s morning; her lips were like two ripe, red berries with rows of pearls between; her eyes were like glorious suns, shining softly in the midst of heaven.

Who acts: cheeks, lips, eyes, glorious suns · What happens: be, shine · To what, where: midst

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Homesick Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, lips, eyes, glorious suns), 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 cheeks	nmod:poss
2	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dawn	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dawn	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 dawn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dawn	det
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 morning	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 summer	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 morning	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 summer	case
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dawn	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 berries	punct
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lips	nmod:poss
14	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 berries	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 berries	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	21 berries	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 berries	nummod
18	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 berries	amod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ripe	punct
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 berries	amod
21	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dawn	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 rows	case
23	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 berries	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 pearls	case
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 rows	nmod
26	between	between	ADP	_	25 pearls	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 suns	punct
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eyes	nmod:poss
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 suns	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 suns	cop
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 suns	case
32	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 suns	amod
33	suns	sun	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 berries	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shining	punct
35	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 suns	acl
36	softly	softly	ADV	_	35 shining	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 midst	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 midst	det
39	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shining	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 heaven	case
41	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 midst	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dawn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Dame's cheeks		like the dawn; morning		tree rules
2	is	past	Dame's lips			like two ripe red berries and glorious suns; with rows of pearls	tree rules
3	is	past	Dame's eyes			like glorious suns	tree rules
4	shine	gerund	glorious suns not said here	the midst of heaven		softly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 10