The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 5
His shoes of reindeer leather were highly polished and his stockings of silk were long and black.
Who acts: stockings · What happens: polish, be · To what, where: shoes
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 (stockings), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 polished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 leather | case |
| 4 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leather | compound |
| 5 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shoes | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 polished | aux:pass |
| 7 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 8 polished | advmod |
| 8 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 long | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stockings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 long | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stockings | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 long | cop |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 polished | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 black | cc |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 long | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 polished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | past · passive | hero's shoes of reindeer leather | highly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | hero's stockings of silk | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | hero's stockings of silk not said here | tree rules |
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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