The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 119
Over his shoulders he wore a sky-blue shawl, thick and soft.
Who acts: Smith · What happens: wear · To what, where: blue shawl, shoulders
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 shoulders | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wore | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shawl | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blue | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sky | punct |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shawl | amod |
| 10 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wore | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thick | punct |
| 12 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shawl | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 soft | cc |
| 14 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thick | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Smith | a blue shawl | Smith's shoulders | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shawl=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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