The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 38
Its garish light fell upon the face of the Minstrel and woke him from his slumber.
Who acts: garish light, sun, light · What happens: fall, wake, light, slumber · To what, where: face, light, slumber
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 (garish light, sun, light), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 light | nmod:poss |
| 2 | garish | garish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 face | det |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Minstrel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Minstrel | det |
| 10 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 face | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 woke | cc |
| 12 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 woke | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 slumber | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 slumber | nmod:poss |
| 16 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woke | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | sun's garish light | the face of the Minstrel | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=Location | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | sun's garish light not said here | light | light's slumber | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | light | sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | slumber | light | nom slumber «state 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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