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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wisdom Keeper, sentence 85

He lay motionless and silent, gazing steadfastly into the heavens and framing new thoughts of beauty and power to add to the treasures of wisdom that were in his keeping.

Who acts: giant, wisdom · What happens: lie, gaze, frame, add, keep, think · To what, where: new thoughts, beauty, wisdom

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 (giant, wisdom), 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

nsubjxcompccconjpunctadvcladvmodcasedetoblccconjamodobjcasenmodccconjmarkadvclcasedetoblcasenmodnsubjauxmarknsubjacl:relclpunctrootHePRONlayVERBmotionlessADJandCCONJsilentADJ,PUNCTgazingVERBsteadfastlyADVintoADPtheDETheavensNOUNandCCONJframingVERBnewADJthoughtsNOUNofADPbeautyNOUNandCCONJpowerNOUNtoPARTaddVERBtoADPtheDETtreasuresNOUNofADPwisdomNOUNthatPRONwereAUXinSCONJhisPRONkeepingVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 laynsubj
2laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3motionlessmotionlessADJDegree=Pos2 layxcomp
4andandCCONJ_5 silentcc
5silentsilentADJDegree=Pos3 motionlessconj
6,,PUNCT_7 gazingpunct
7gazinggazeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 layadvcl
8steadfastlysteadfastlyADV_7 gazingadvmod
9intointoADP_11 heavenscase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 heavensdet
11heavensheavenNOUNNumber=Plur7 gazingobl
12andandCCONJ_13 framingcc
13framingframeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 gazingconj
14newnewADJDegree=Pos15 thoughtsamod
15thoughtsthoughtNOUNNumber=Plur13 framingobj
16ofofADP_17 beautycase
17beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing15 thoughtsnmod
18andandCCONJ_19 powercc
19powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing17 beautyconj
20totoPART_21 addmark
21addaddVERBVerbForm=Inf13 framingadvcl
22totoADP_24 treasurescase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 treasuresdet
24treasurestreasureNOUNNumber=Plur21 addobl
25ofofADP_26 wisdomcase
26wisdomwisdomNOUNNumber=Sing24 treasuresnmod
27thatthatPRONPronType=Rel31 keepingnsubj
28werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 keepingaux
29ininSCONJ_31 keepingmark
30hishisPRONGender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 keepingnsubj
31keepingkeepVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part26 wisdomacl:relcl
32..PUNCT_2 laypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1liepastgiantmotionless propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2gazegerundgiant not said hereinto the heavens; steadfastly propertyvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into heaven=Theme
3framegerundgiant not said herenew thoughts of beauty and powervn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thought=Destination
4add speech: assertto-infinitivegiant not said hereto the treasures of wisdomvn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to treasure=Co-Patient
5keeppast · progressivewisdomgiant nsubjvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6thinkbeauty and powernom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7treasurewisdomnom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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