The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 68
The hero’s face will be smutted, his eyes will be filled with soot.
What happens: smut, fill · To what, where: face, eyes
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 hero | case |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smutted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 smutted | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 smutted | aux:pass |
| 7 | smutted | smut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 filled | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 smutted | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 soot | case |
| 15 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 smutted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smut | future · passive | the hero's face | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | fill | future · passive | hero's eyes | with soot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soot=Instrument |
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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