The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Old Man’s Wooing, sentence 22
Her eyes wandered to the bleak, brown meadows, and she gazed wistfully towards the pathway which led from the distant hills.
Who acts: eyes, Maid, pathway · What happens: wander, gaze, lead · To what, where: bleak, distant hills
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Old Man’s Wooing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Maid, pathway), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bleak | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bleak | det |
| 6 | bleak | bleak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 meadows | punct |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 meadows | amod |
| 9 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bleak | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazed | nsubj |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 14 | wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 13 gazed | advmod |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 pathway | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pathway | det |
| 17 | pathway | pathway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazed | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pathway | acl:relcl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 hills | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hills | det |
| 22 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hills | amod |
| 23 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 led | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Maid's eyes | the bleak and brown meadows | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bleak=Destination | ||||
| 2 | gaze | past | Maid | towards the pathway; wistfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent towards pathway=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the pathway | the distant hills | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from hill=Destination |
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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