The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 55
She was white with flour and laden with silver, and she wore a look of triumph on her grim and unlovely face.
Who acts: Dame · What happens: be, lade, wear · To what, where: look, grim face
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 (Dame), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 white | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | cop |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 flour | case |
| 5 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 white | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 laden | cc |
| 7 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 white | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 silver | case |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laden | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wore | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wore | nsubj |
| 13 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 white | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 look | det |
| 15 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 triumph | case |
| 17 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 look | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 unlovely | cc |
| 22 | unlovely | unlovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grim | conj |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dame | with flour; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | Dame not said here | with silver | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | Dame | a look of triumph | Dame's grim face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent look=Source |
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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