The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 89
Its body was glittering bright like fire, its mane and tail were glowing red like the sun when it shines through the mists of the morning.
Who acts: body, mane · What happens: glitter, glow, shine, mist · To what, where: mists, morning
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 (body, mane), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 body | nmod:poss |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glittering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glittering | aux |
| 4 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 glittering | xcomp |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 fire | case |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bright | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mane | punct |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mane | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glowing | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tail | cc |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mane | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glowing | aux |
| 14 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 glittering | conj |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 glowing | xcomp |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sun | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sun | det |
| 18 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glowing | obl |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 shines | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shines | nsubj |
| 21 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 glowing | advcl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 mists | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mists | det |
| 24 | mists | mist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shines | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 morning | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mists | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glittering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past · progressive | vapor's body | bright property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glow | past · progressive | body's mane and tail | like the sun; red property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shine | present | body | the mists of the morning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through mist=Location | ||||
| 4 | mist | the morning | nom mist «phenomenon 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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