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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 7

The Minstrel looked at the fair boat steadfastly; he viewed it from this side and from that, and then hot tears came into his eyes and trickled down upon his beard.

Who acts: Minstrel, hot tears · What happens: look, view, come, trickle down · To what, where: boat, side, eyes

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 (Minstrel, hot tears), 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

detnsubjcasedetamodobladvmodpunctnsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblcccaseconjpunctccadvmodamodnsubjparataxiscasenmod:possoblccconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETMinstrelPROPNlookedVERBatADPtheDETfairADJboatNOUNsteadfastlyADV;PUNCThePRONviewedVERBitPRONfromADPthisDETsideNOUNandCCONJfromADPthatPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVhotADJtearsNOUNcameVERBintoADPhisPRONeyesNOUNandCCONJtrickledVERBdownADVuponADPhisPRONbeardNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Minstreldet
2MinstrelMinstrelPROPNNumber=Sing3 lookednsubj
3lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4atatADP_7 boatcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 boatdet
6fairfairADJDegree=Pos7 boatamod
7boatboatNOUNNumber=Sing3 lookedobl
8steadfastlysteadfastlyADV_3 lookedadvmod
9;;PUNCT_11 viewedpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 viewednsubj
11viewedviewVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 lookedparataxis
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 viewedobj
13fromfromADP_15 sidecase
14thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem15 sidedet
15sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing11 viewedobl
16andandCCONJ_18 thatcc
17fromfromADP_18 thatcase
18thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem11 viewedconj
19,,PUNCT_24 camepunct
20andandCCONJ_24 camecc
21thenthenADVPronType=Dem24 cameadvmod
22hothotADJDegree=Pos23 tearsamod
23tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur24 camensubj
24camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 lookedparataxis
25intointoADP_27 eyescase
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 eyesnmod:poss
27eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur24 cameobl
28andandCCONJ_29 trickledcc
29trickledtrickleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 cameconj
30downdownADV_29 trickledadvmod
31uponuponADP_33 beardcase
32hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs33 beardnmod:poss
33beardbeardNOUNNumber=Sing29 trickledobl
34..PUNCT_3 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookpastthe Minstrelat the fair boat; steadfastly propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boat=Theme
2viewpastMinstrelboatthis sidethat conjvn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3comepasthot tearsMinstrel's eyesthenvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial_Location
4trickle downpasthot tears not said hereupon Minstrel's beard; down propertyvn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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