The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 74

They are not green, they are not gray; but they are brownish like the sea-foam in the shadow of a rock, brownish like a bulrush in the early days of winter.”

Who acts: eyes · What happens: not be, be, shadow · To what, where: rock

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 (eyes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 green	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 green	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gray	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gray	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 gray	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gray	advmod
9	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 green	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 brownish	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 brownish	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brownish	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 brownish	cop
14	brownish	brownish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 green	parataxis
15	like	like	ADP	_	19 foam	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 foam	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foam	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 sea	punct
19	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brownish	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 shadow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shadow	det
22	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 foam	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rock	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 rock	det
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shadow	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brownish	punct
27	brownish	brownish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brownish	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 bulrush	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 bulrush	det
30	bulrush	bulrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brownish	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 days	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 days	det
33	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 days	amod
34	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bulrush	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 winter	case
36	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 days	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	eyes = eye		green property	tree rules
2	not is	present	eyes = eye		gray property	tree rules
3	is	present	eyes = eye		like the sea foam in the shadow of a rock; brownish property	tree rules
4	be		eyes = eye not said here		like a bulrush in the early days of winter	tree rules
5	shadow			a rock		nom shadow «state 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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Bridegroom’s Triumph, sentence 74