The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 5
In the long, low dwelling by the sea the fires had been rekindled, for the air was crisp with frost and the wind of the North was blowing strong.
Who acts: sea, air, North · What happens: dwell, rekindle, be, blow · To what, where: fires, wind
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 (sea, air, North), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 low | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 low | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 low | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
| 5 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 low | advcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelling | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fires | det |
| 11 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rekindled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rekindled | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 rekindled | aux:pass |
| 14 | rekindled | rekindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sea | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crisp | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 crisp | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crisp | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crisp | cop |
| 20 | crisp | crisp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 low | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 frost | case |
| 22 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crisp | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wind | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wind | det |
| 25 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 frost | conj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 30 blowing | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 North | det |
| 28 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 blowing | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 blowing | aux |
| 30 | blowing | blow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 wind | acl |
| 31 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blowing | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 low | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | gerund | by the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location | |||||
| 2 | rekindle | past · perfect · passive | the sea not said here | the fires | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the air | with frost and the wind; crisp property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blow | past · progressive | the North | the wind not said here | strong property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wind=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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