The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 89

He put his half-closed right hand to his eye and looked through it as men sometimes in these later days look through a spy-glass.

Who acts: beast · What happens: put, close, look · To what, where: closed right hand

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 (beast), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 closed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 half	punct
6	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hand	amod
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hand	amod
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 eye	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eye	nmod:poss
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 men	case
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looked	obl
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 look	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 days	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 days	det
21	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 look	obl
23	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	advcl
24	through	through	ADP	_	28 glass	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 glass	det
26	spy	spy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 glass	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 spy	punct
28	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 look	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	beast	beast's closed right hand		to beast's eye	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
2	close	participle				half compound	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	look	past	beast not said here			as men; through eye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through it=Theme
4	look	present	beast not said here		day	through a spy glass; sometimes property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through glass=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 tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 89