The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 14
He is old, his hair is snow-white, wrinkles are beneath his eyes; yet he is wise and fearless, and his limbs are strong.
Who acts: man, hair, wrinkles, limbs · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, hair, wrinkles, limbs), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 old | cop |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 white | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hair | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 white | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 white | cop |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 white | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 snow | punct |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 12 | wrinkles | wrinkle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eyes | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 eyes | cop |
| 14 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 old | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wise | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 wise | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wise | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wise | cop |
| 21 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 old | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fearless | cc |
| 23 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wise | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 strong | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 strong | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 strong | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 strong | cop |
| 29 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wise | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | man | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | man's hair | snow obl; white property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | wrinkles | beneath man's eyes; man nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | man | yet | wise property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | be | man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is | present | man's limbs | strong property | 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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