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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 14

He looked around him, and, half hidden among the brushwood, he saw the dwarfish earth man, Sampsa, standing with cap in hand, his small eyes twinkling.

Who acts: Pohyola, small eyes · What happens: look, hide, see, stand, twinkle · To what, where: brushwood, dwarfish earth man, small eyes, hand

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wisdom Keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pohyola, small eyes), 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

nsubjcaseoblpunctccpunctadvmodconjcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjdetamodcompoundobjpunctappospunctadvclcaseoblcaseoblpunctnmod:possamodoblaclpunctrootHePRONlookedVERBaroundADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCThalfADVhiddenVERBamongADPtheDETbrushwoodNOUN,PUNCThePRONsawVERBtheDETdwarfishADJearthNOUNmanNOUN,PUNCTSampsaPROPN,PUNCTstandingVERBwithADPcapNOUNinADPhandNOUN,PUNCThisPRONsmallADJeyesNOUNtwinklingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 lookednsubj
2lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aroundaroundADP_4 himcase
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 lookedobl
5,,PUNCT_9 hiddenpunct
6andandCCONJ_9 hiddencc
7,,PUNCT_9 hiddenpunct
8halfhalfADVNumForm=Word NumType=Frac9 hiddenadvmod
9hiddenhideVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 lookedconj
10amongamongADP_12 brushwoodcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 brushwooddet
12brushwoodbrushwoodNOUNNumber=Sing9 hiddenobl
13,,PUNCT_15 sawpunct
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 sawnsubj
15sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 lookedconj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 mandet
17dwarfishdwarfishADJDegree=Pos19 manamod
18earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing19 mancompound
19manmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 sawobj
20,,PUNCT_21 Sampsapunct
21SampsaSampsaPROPNNumber=Sing19 manappos
22,,PUNCT_23 standingpunct
23standingstandVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 sawadvcl
24withwithADP_25 capcase
25capcapNOUNNumber=Sing23 standingobl
26ininADP_27 handcase
27handhandNOUNNumber=Sing23 standingobl
28,,PUNCT_31 eyespunct
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 eyesnmod:poss
30smallsmallADJDegree=Pos31 eyesamod
31eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur23 standingobl
32twinklingtwinkleVERBVerbForm=Ger31 eyesacl
33..PUNCT_2 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastPohyolaaround voicevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme
2hideparticiplePohyola not said herethe brushwoodhalf propertyvn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among brushwood=Location
3seepastPohyolathe dwarfish earth manvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4standgerundPohyola not said herePohyola's small eyeshandwith capvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location
5twinklegerundPohyola's small eyes not said herevn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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