The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 51
The South Wind breathed on the sails of blue and red, and the West Wind whispered joy in the nostrils of the fleeting gray racer.
Who acts: South Wind, West Wind · What happens: breathe, whisper · To what, where: sails, joy, nostrils
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (South Wind, West Wind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 breathed | nsubj |
| 4 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sails | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sails | det |
| 7 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 breathed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 blue | case |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sails | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 red | cc |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blue | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 whispered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 whispered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Wind | det |
| 15 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Wind | compound |
| 16 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 whispered | nsubj |
| 17 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 breathed | conj |
| 18 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 whispered | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 nostrils | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nostrils | det |
| 21 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 whispered | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 racer | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 racer | det |
| 24 | fleeting | fleeting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 racer | amod |
| 25 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 racer | compound |
| 26 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 nostrils | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 breathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | past | the South Wind | the sails of blue | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on sail=Destination | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the West Wind | joy | the nostrils of the fleeting gray racer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Topic |
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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