The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 20

One of her fair hands was raised to shade her face from the glaring noonday sun; in the other she held a bundle of long silken ribbons which she had been washing in the sea.

Who acts: Midway, long silken ribbons · What happens: raise, shade, hold, wash · To what, where: One, face, bundle, other, sea

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Maid of the Morning. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Midway, long silken ribbons), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 raised	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 hands	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 raised	aux:pass
7	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 shade	mark
9	shade	shade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 raised	xcomp
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shade	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
14	glaring	glaring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sun	amod
15	noonday	noonday	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sun	compound
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shade	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 held	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 other	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 other	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 held	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 raised	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bundle	det
24	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 ribbons	case
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ribbons	amod
27	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ribbons	amod
28	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bundle	nmod
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 washing	nsubj
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 washing	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 washing	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 washing	aux
33	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 ribbons	acl:relcl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 sea	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sea	det
36	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 washing	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	raise	past · passive		One of Midway's fair hands			tree rules
2	shade	to-infinitive		Midway's face		from the glaring noonday sun	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Beneficiary from sun=Theme
3	hold	past	Midway	a bundle of long silken ribbons	the other		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme in other=Location
4	wash	past · perfect · progressive	long silken ribbons		the sea	Midway nsubj	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 20

The tree

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The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 20