The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Homesick Hero, sentence 81
“At the break of day?” answered the Smith, his face brightening as his hopes were strengthened.
Who acts: Smith, face, Pohyola · What happens: answer, brighten, strengthen, break, hope · To what, where: break, hopes, day
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 (Smith, face, Pohyola), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 break | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 break | det |
| 4 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Smith | det |
| 11 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 face | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Smith | appos |
| 15 | brightening | brighten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 face | acl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 strengthened | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hopes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 strengthened | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 strengthened | aux:pass |
| 20 | strengthened | strengthen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 brightening | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Smith | the break of day | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | brighten | gerund | Pohyola's face not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | strengthen | past · passive | Pohyola's hopes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | break in a quote | day | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | hope | Pohyola | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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