The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 83

On the broad face of the sea he discerned a strange speck, white, yellow, and scarlet, gliding swiftly landward, glistening bright on the blue and silent water.

Who acts: man · What happens: discern, glide, glisten · To what, where: strange speck, broad face, blue water

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 (man), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 face	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 face	det
3	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 face	amod
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discerned	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 face	nmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 discerned	nsubj
9	discerned	discern	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 speck	det
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speck	amod
12	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discerned	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 white	punct
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 speck	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yellow	punct
16	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 white	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scarlet	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scarlet	cc
19	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 discerned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gliding	punct
21	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 discerned	advcl
22	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	23 landward	advmod
23	landward	landward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gliding	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 glistening	punct
25	glistening	glisten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 gliding	conj
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 glistening	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	32 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 water	det
29	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 water	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 silent	cc
31	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blue	conj
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 glistening	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 discerned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discern	past	man	a strange speck	the broad face of the sea	scarlet obl	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speck=Stimulus
2	glide	gerund	man not said here			landward property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	glisten	gerund	man not said here		the blue water	bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Location

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 83