The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Land of Tuonela, sentence 67
If the waves had overcome you, if Water had sent you, your coat would be wringing wet and your wan face would be overspread with moisture.
Who acts: coat · What happens: overcome, send, wring, overspread · To what, where: waves, Water, you, wan face
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Land of Tuonela. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 overcome | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 waves | det |
| 3 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 wringing | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 overcome | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 sent | mark |
| 9 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 overcome | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 sent | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 coat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wringing | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 wringing | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wringing | aux |
| 18 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wringing | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 overspread | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 overspread | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 overspread | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 overspread | aux:pass |
| 26 | overspread | overspread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wet | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 moisture | case |
| 28 | moisture | moisture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 overspread | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wringing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the waves | you obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Water | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wring | would · progressive | your coat | wet property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | overspread | would · passive | your wan face | with moisture | tree 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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