The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 127
Pale and wan and weak from hunger and long exposure, he approached the house and opened the door.
Who acts: Pale exposure · What happens: approach, open · To what, where: house, door
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 (Pale exposure), 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 | Pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 exposure | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wan | cc |
| 3 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pale | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weak | cc |
| 5 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pale | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hunger | case |
| 7 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weak | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 long | cc |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pale | conj |
| 10 | exposure | exposure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approached | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 exposure | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 approached | nsubj |
| 13 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 house | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 approached | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 opened | cc |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 approached | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | Pale exposure | the house | exposure nsubj | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past | Pale exposure not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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