The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 103
He looked again, and saw the Maid of Beauty among them; she was waving her hand, and her face seemed to him tenfold more beautiful than before; her cheeks were wet with tears, and there was a look of great regret in her wonderful eyes.
Who acts: Ilmarinen, Beauty, face, cheeks, look · What happens: look, see, wave, seem, tenfold, be · To what, where: Maid, hand, Ilmarinen
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 (Ilmarinen, Beauty, face, cheeks), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Maid | det |
| 8 | Maid | Maid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Beauty | case |
| 10 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Maid | nmod |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 waving | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waving | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 waving | aux |
| 16 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waving | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seemed | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seemed | obl |
| 26 | tenfold | tenfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 27 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tenfold | xcomp |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 before | case |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 28 beautiful | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 wet | punct |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wet | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 wet | cop |
| 35 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 seemed | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 tears | case |
| 37 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wet | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 was | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 was | cc |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 was | expl |
| 41 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 look | det |
| 43 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 was | nsubj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 regret | case |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 regret | amod |
| 46 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 look | nmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 eyes | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 eyes | amod |
| 50 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 regret | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Ilmarinen | again | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Ilmarinen not said here | the Maid of Beauty | among maids = maid | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wave | past · progressive | Beauty | Beauty's hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | Beauty's face | Ilmarinen | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | tenfold | infinitive | Beauty's face not said here | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Beauty's cheeks | with tears; wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | past | a look of great regret in Beauty's wonderful eyes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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