The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 42
But his step was firm as the step of a conqueror, and his eyes glowed brightly with joy as the eyes of one who has been victorious in battle.
Who acts: step, eyes, child · What happens: be, glow, step · To what, where: battle, conqueror
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 (step, eyes, child), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 firm | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 step | nmod:poss |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 firm | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 firm | cop |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 step | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 step | det |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 firm | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 conqueror | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 conqueror | det |
| 11 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 step | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glowed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glowed | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glowed | nsubj |
| 16 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 firm | conj |
| 17 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 16 glowed | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glowed | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 glowed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 victorious | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 victorious | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 victorious | cop |
| 28 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 battle | case |
| 30 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 victorious | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 firm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | child's step | as the step of a conqueror; firm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glow | past | child's eyes | with joy; as the eyes of one; brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | battle | who nsubj; victorious property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | step | child | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | step | a conqueror | nom step «act 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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