The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 4
On his head was the cap of his ancestors, and around his waist a golden girdle was buckled.
What happens: be, buckle · To what, where: cap, head, golden girdle, waist
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cap | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cap | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cap | det |
| 6 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ancestors | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cap | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 buckled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 buckled | cc |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 waist | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 waist | nmod:poss |
| 14 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buckled | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girdle | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girdle | amod |
| 17 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 buckled | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 buckled | aux:pass |
| 19 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cap | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the cap | hero's head | of hero's ancestors | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buckle | past · passive | a golden girdle | hero's waist | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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