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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 46

He turned slowly away, and with head bowed down and cap pulled over his eyes, he sought his favorite place by the side of the smouldering hearth-fire.

Who acts: Ilmarinen, cap · What happens: turn, bow down, pull over, seek, smoulder · To what, where: eyes, favorite place

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, cap), 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

nsubjadvmodadvmodpunctcccaseoblconjcompound:prtccnsubjconjcompound:prtnmod:possobjpunctnsubjconjnmod:possamodobjcasedetoblcasedetamodcompoundpunctnmodpunctrootHePRONturnedVERBslowlyADVawayADV,PUNCTandCCONJwithADPheadNOUNbowedVERBdownADPandCCONJcapNOUNpulledVERBoverADPhisPRONeyesNOUN,PUNCThePRONsoughtVERBhisPRONfavoriteADJplaceNOUNbyADPtheDETsideNOUNofADPtheDETsmoulderingVERBhearthNOUN-PUNCTfireNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 turnednsubj
2turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3slowlyslowlyADV_4 awayadvmod
4awayawayADV_2 turnedadvmod
5,,PUNCT_9 bowedpunct
6andandCCONJ_9 bowedcc
7withwithADP_8 headcase
8headheadNOUNNumber=Sing9 bowedobl
9bowedbowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 turnedconj
10downdownADP_9 bowedcompound:prt
11andandCCONJ_13 pulledcc
12capcapNOUNNumber=Sing13 pullednsubj
13pulledpullVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 bowedconj
14overoverADP_13 pulledcompound:prt
15hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 eyesnmod:poss
16eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur13 pulledobj
17,,PUNCT_19 soughtpunct
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 soughtnsubj
19soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 turnedconj
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 placenmod:poss
21favoritefavoriteADJDegree=Pos22 placeamod
22placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing19 soughtobj
23bybyADP_25 sidecase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 sidedet
25sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing19 soughtobl
26ofofADP_31 firecase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 firedet
28smoulderingsmoulderVERBVerbForm=Ger31 fireamod
29hearthhearthNOUNNumber=Sing31 firecompound
30--PUNCT_29 hearthpunct
31firefireNOUNNumber=Sing25 sidenmod
32..PUNCT_2 turnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turnpastIlmarinenaway propertyvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2bow downparticipleIlmarinen not said herewith headvn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3pull overpastcapIlmarinen's eyesvn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4seekpastIlmarinenIlmarinen's favorite placeby the side of the smouldering hearth firevn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Theme by side=Location
5smouldergerundtree 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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