The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Maid of the Morning, sentence 88
Their sword-blades clanged against each other and glittered in the morning light, and their winged helmets were like golden birds of victory resting on their brows.
Who acts: sword blades, winged helmets, victory · What happens: clang, glitter, wing, be, rest · To what, where: each, morning light, brows
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 (sword blades, winged helmets, victory), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 blades | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blades | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sword | punct |
| 4 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clanged | nsubj |
| 5 | clanged | clang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 clanged | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glittered | cc |
| 10 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 clanged | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 light | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 light | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 light | compound |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glittered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 birds | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 birds | cc |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 helmets | nmod:poss |
| 18 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 helmets | amod |
| 19 | helmets | helmet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 birds | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 birds | cop |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 birds | case |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 birds | amod |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clanged | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 victory | case |
| 25 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 birds | nmod |
| 26 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 victory | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 brows | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brows | nmod:poss |
| 29 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 resting | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clang | past | men's sword blades | each | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Location | ||||
| 2 | glitter | participle | men's sword blades not said here | the morning light | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | ||||
| 3 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | men's winged helmets | like golden birds; of victory | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rest | gerund | victory not said here | men's brows | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brow=Location |
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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