The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 101
On every clear night, the silver moon has looked down and smiled upon me.
What happens: look down, smile · To what, where: silver moon
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unfinished Boat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 night | det |
| 3 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 moon | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moon | compound |
| 8 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | aux |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 looked | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smiled | cc |
| 13 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 smiled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | present · perfect · passive | the silver moon | night | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | upon me | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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