The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 42

His coat was of coarsest cloth, much patched; his trousers were of reindeer skin; his stockings were of blue-dyed wool; his shoes were heavy and serviceable.

Who acts: coat, trousers, stockings, shoes · What happens: be, patch · To what, where: coarsest cloth

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat, trousers, stockings, shoes), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 coat	nmod:poss
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cloth	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 cloth	case
5	coarsest	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 patched	punct
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 patched	advmod
9	patched	patch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cloth	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 skin	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 trousers	nmod:poss
12	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 skin	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 skin	cop
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 skin	case
15	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skin	compound
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 wool	punct
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 stockings	nmod:poss
19	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wool	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wool	cop
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 wool	case
22	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 dyed	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 blue	punct
24	dyed	dyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wool	amod
25	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloth	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 heavy	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoes	nmod:poss
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 heavy	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heavy	cop
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wool	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 serviceable	cc
32	serviceable	serviceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 heavy	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cloth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	slave's coat		of coarsest cloth and reindeer skin and dyed wool	tree rules
2	patch	participle		coarsest cloth and reindeer skin and dyed wool not said here		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	slave's trousers		of reindeer skin	tree rules
4	is	past	slave's stockings		of dyed wool	tree rules
5	is	past	slave's shoes		heavy property	tree rules
6	be		slave's shoes not said here			tree rules

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 Slave Boy, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 42