The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 40
Gaunt and tall he was, and pale and wan from long toil and endless wanderings.
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Bridegroom’s Triumph. 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 | Gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tall | cc |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Gaunt | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tall | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pale | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 pale | cc |
| 8 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Gaunt | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wan | cc |
| 10 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pale | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 toil | case |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toil | amod |
| 13 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wan | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wanderings | cc |
| 15 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wanderings | amod |
| 16 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 toil | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gaunt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tall property | 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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