The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 169
With a glad heart did Wainamoinen speed across the brown meadows and into the silent forest; his face beamed like the sunlight, his eyes glowed like twin stars, and a song was ready to burst from his lips.
Who acts: face, song · What happens: do, beam, glow, be, burst · To what, where: Wainamoinen speed, brown meadows, face, lips
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, song), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 heart | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heart | det |
| 3 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heart | amod |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 speed | compound |
| 7 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 meadows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meadows | det |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 meadows | amod |
| 11 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 did | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forest | cc |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 15 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forest | amod |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 meadows | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 face | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glowed | nsubj |
| 20 | beamed | beam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 face | acl |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 sunlight | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sunlight | det |
| 23 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beamed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 glowed | punct |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 glowed | nsubj |
| 27 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 meadows | acl:relcl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 stars | case |
| 29 | twin | twin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stars | compound |
| 30 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 glowed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ready | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ready | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 song | det |
| 34 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ready | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ready | cop |
| 36 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 did | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 burst | mark |
| 38 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 ready | xcomp |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 lips | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 lips | nmod:poss |
| 41 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 burst | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Wainamoinen speed | the brown meadows and the silent forest | with a glad heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speed=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | beam | participle | sky's face not said here | like the sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glow | past | sky's face | the brown meadows and the silent forest not said here | like twin stars; sky's eyes nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | a song | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burst | to-infinitive | a song not said here | sky's lips | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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