The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 126
On the sixth day, however, his eyes were gladdened by the sight of the shores of Pohyola and the weather-stained dwelling of the Wise Woman of the North.
Who acts: sight · What happens: gladden, stain, sight · To what, where: eyes, shores
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gladdened | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 gladdened | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gladdened | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gladdened | aux:pass |
| 11 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sight | det |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gladdened | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shores | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shores | det |
| 17 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sight | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Pohyola | case |
| 19 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shores | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dwelling | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dwelling | det |
| 22 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stained | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 weather | punct |
| 24 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 dwelling | amod |
| 25 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Pohyola | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Woman | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Woman | det |
| 28 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Woman | amod |
| 29 | Woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dwelling | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 North | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 North | det |
| 32 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Woman | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gladdened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gladden | past · passive | the sight of the shores of Pohyola and the stained dwelling of the Wise Woman of the North | Ilmarinen's eyes | day | however property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | stain | participle | weather compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sight | the shores of Pohyola and the stained dwelling of the Wise Woman of the North | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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