The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 76
And from his nostrils came a sweetness like that of the gentle South Wind after it has passed over vast gardens of early violets.
Who acts: sweetness · What happens: come, pass · To what, where: nostrils, sweetness, vast gardens
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 (sweetness), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 nostrils | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 4 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sweetness | det |
| 7 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sweetness | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wind | det |
| 12 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Wind | amod |
| 13 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wind | compound |
| 14 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 that | nmod |
| 15 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 passed | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | aux |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | advcl |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 gardens | case |
| 20 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gardens | amod |
| 21 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 violets | case |
| 23 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 violets | amod |
| 24 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gardens | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a sweetness like that of the gentle South Wind | planter's nostrils | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from nostril=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | present · perfect · passive | sweetness | vast gardens of early violets | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme over garden=Destination |
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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