The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 41
His garments were soiled and torn, his feet were bare and scarred with wounds, his head was uncovered.
Who acts: feet · What happens: soil, tear, be, scar, uncover · To what, where: garments, head
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: who acts (feet), 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 garments | nmod:poss |
| 2 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 soiled | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 soiled | aux:pass |
| 4 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 torn | cc |
| 6 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 soiled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bare | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bare | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bare | cop |
| 11 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soiled | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 scarred | cc |
| 13 | scarred | scar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bare | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 wounds | case |
| 15 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 scarred | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 uncovered | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 uncovered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 uncovered | aux:pass |
| 20 | uncovered | uncover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 soiled | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 soiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soil | past · passive | child's garments | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | tear | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | child's feet | bare property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scar | participle | child's feet not said here | with wounds | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | uncover | past · passive | child's head | 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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