The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 74
His eyes were two crystal lakes of wondrous depth and clearness.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: be · To what, where: two crystal lakes
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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lakes | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lakes | cop |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 lakes | nummod |
| 5 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lakes | amod |
| 6 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 depth | case |
| 8 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 depth | amod |
| 9 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lakes | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clearness | cc |
| 11 | clearness | clearness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depth | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | planter's eyes | two crystal lakes | of wondrous depth and clearness | 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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