The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Launching, sentence 9
Scarcely was there a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky—the day was so young.
Who acts: Scarcely, day · What happens: be · To what, where: tinge
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Launching. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, day), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tinge | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tinge | cop |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 tinge | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tinge | det |
| 5 | tinge | tinge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 yellow | case |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tinge | amod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 10 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sky | amod |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 yellow | obl |
| 12 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 young | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 young | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 young | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 young | advmod |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tinge | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tinge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Scarcely | a tinge | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the day | young property | 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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