The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unfinished Boat, sentence 20
And now her image seemed always before their eyes, and her voice seemed calling to them through the misty and frost-laden air of the desolate North Land.
Who acts: image, voice, laden air, Land · What happens: seem, call, lade, desolate, image · To what, where: Minstrel, misty, North Land · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (image, voice, laden air, Land), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 seemed | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 image | nmod:poss |
| 4 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seemed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 calling | obl |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 misty | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 misty | det |
| 20 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 calling | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 air | cc |
| 22 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 laden | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 frost | punct |
| 24 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 air | amod |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 misty | conj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 desolate | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 desolate | det |
| 28 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 air | acl |
| 29 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Land | compound |
| 30 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 desolate | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Land's image | before Minstrel's eyes; now | always property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | Land's voice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | Land's voice not said here | Minstrel | the misty and laden air | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||
| 4 | lade | participle | frost compound | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | desolate | infinitive | laden air not said here | North Land | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | image | Land | nom image «cognition transitive»: 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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