The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 3
Over his shoulders was the sky-blue shawl which his mother had woven for him.
What happens: be, weave · To what, where: blue shawl, shoulders
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: 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 shoulders | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 3 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shawl | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shawl | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shawl | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blue | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sky | punct |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shawl | amod |
| 9 | shawl | shawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woven | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 woven | aux |
| 14 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shawl | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 woven | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shawl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the blue shawl | hero's shoulders | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weave | past · perfect · passive | the blue shawl | for hero; hero's mother nsubj:pass | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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