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

As the morning of the fourth was dawning, Ilmarinen beheld on his left the lofty headland and pleasant shore of his native land, green with summer-leafing trees and odorous with the breath of wildflowers.

Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: dawn, behold, leave, leaf · To what, where: lofty headland

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), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	8 dawning	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dawning	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fourth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fourth	det
6	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dawning	aux
8	dawning	dawn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 beheld	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dawning	punct
10	Ilmarinen	Ilmarinen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 beheld	nsubj
11	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 left	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 left	nmod:poss
14	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beheld	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 headland	det
16	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 headland	amod
17	headland	headland	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 left	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 shore	cc
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shore	amod
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 headland	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 land	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 land	nmod:poss
23	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 land	amod
24	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shore	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 green	punct
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 headland	parataxis
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 trees	case
28	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 leafing	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 summer	punct
30	leafing	leaf	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 trees	amod
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 green	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 odorous	cc
33	odorous	odorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 green	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 breath	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 breath	det
36	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 odorous	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 wildflowers	case
38	wildflowers	wildflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 breath	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 beheld	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dawn	past · progressive	Ilmarinen not said here		morning		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	behold	past	Ilmarinen				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	leave	past	Ilmarinen not said here	the lofty headland and pleasant shore of Ilmarinen's native land		Ilmarinen nmod:poss	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headland=Theme
4	leaf	gerund					vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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The tree

Pragmatics

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