The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 33
At length, just as the sun was setting, he saw his own fair dwelling nestling among the trees of Wainola.
Who acts: sun, own fair · What happens: set, see, dwell, nestle · To what, where: own fair, length, trees
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, own fair), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 setting | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 setting | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 setting | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 setting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 setting | aux |
| 9 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 length | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fair | amod |
| 15 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 fair | acl |
| 17 | nestling | nestle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 dwelling | xcomp |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nestling | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Wainola | case |
| 22 | Wainola | Wainola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 trees | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | past | sun | sun's own fair | length | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fair=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | sun's own fair not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | nestle | gerund | sun's own fair not said here | the trees of Wainola | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among tree=Location |
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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