The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 2
His face and arms were begrimed with sweat and black soot, his eyebrows were gray with ashes, his shoulders and head were besprinkled with dust and flaky cinders.
Who acts: eyebrows · What happens: begrime, be, besprinkle · To what, where: face
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 (eyebrows), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begrimed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 arms | cc |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 face | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 begrimed | aux:pass |
| 6 | begrimed | begrime | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sweat | case |
| 8 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 begrimed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 soot | cc |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soot | amod |
| 11 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sweat | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gray | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gray | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gray | cop |
| 16 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 besprinkled | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 ashes | case |
| 18 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gray | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shoulders | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ashes | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 head | cc |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ashes | conj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 besprinkled | aux:pass |
| 25 | besprinkled | besprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 begrimed | parataxis |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 dust | case |
| 27 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 besprinkled | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cinders | cc |
| 29 | flaky | flaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cinders | amod |
| 30 | cinders | cinder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 dust | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begrimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begrime | past · passive | Ilmarinen's face and arms | with sweat and black soot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Ilmarinen's eyebrows | with ashes and Ilmarinen's shoulders and head; gray property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | besprinkle | past · passive | with dust and flaky cinders | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/20/2/