The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 10

The doors were open and warm breezes from southern seas breathed through the low-raftered hall, playing with the deerskin curtains and with the maiden’s silken hair.

Who acts: doors · What happens: be, breathe, rafter, play · To what, where: southern seas, raftered hall

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors), 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	2 doors	det
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 open	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 open	cop
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 breezes	cc
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 breezes	amod
7	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 open	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 seas	case
9	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seas	amod
10	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 breezes	nmod
11	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seas	acl
12	through	through	ADP	_	17 hall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hall	det
14	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 raftered	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 low	punct
16	raftered	rafter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 hall	amod
17	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breathed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 playing	punct
19	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 open	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 curtains	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 curtains	det
22	deerskin	deerskin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 curtains	compound
23	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 playing	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hair	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	30 hair	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 maiden	det
27	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hair	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 maiden	case
29	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hair	amod
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 curtains	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the doors			warm breezes from southern seas conj; open property	tree rules
2	breathe	participle		southern seas not said here	the raftered hall		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rafter	participle					tree rules
4	play	gerund	the doors not said here			with the deerskin curtains and the maiden's silken hair	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with curtain=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 10