The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hero’s Return, sentence 12
Women left off their knitting, they forgot their baking, and peered out wonderingly, into the gloomy twilight.
Who acts: Women · What happens: leave off, forget, peer out, bake · To what, where: knitting, baking
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hero’s Return. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Women), 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 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Women | acl |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 left | compound:prt |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knitting | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knitting | knitting | NOUN | _ | 2 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Women | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 forgot | nsubj |
| 8 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 baking | nmod:poss |
| 10 | baking | baking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forgot | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 peered | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 peered | cc |
| 13 | peered | peer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forgot | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 peered | compound:prt |
| 15 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 13 peered | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 twilight | punct |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 twilight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 twilight | det |
| 19 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 twilight | amod |
| 20 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peered | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | participle | Women not said here | Women's knitting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knitting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Women | Women's baking | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | peer out | participle | Women not said here | the gloomy twilight parataxis; wonderingly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bake | Women = woman | nom baking «act 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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