The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 43

No beard was yet on his chin or sun-browned cheeks; his eyes were blue with shades of savagery lurking in their depths; his uncombed hair was yellow, long, and frowzy.

Who acts: beard, eyes, uncombed hair · What happens: be, brown, shade · To what, where: chin, savagery lurking

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 (beard, eyes, uncombed hair), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 beard	det
2	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chin	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chin	cop
4	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 chin	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 chin	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 chin	nmod:poss
7	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 cheeks	cc
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 browned	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 sun	punct
11	browned	brown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 cheeks	amod
12	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chin	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 blue	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blue	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blue	cop
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chin	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 shades	case
19	shades	shade	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 blue	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 lurking	case
21	savagery	savagery	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lurking	compound
22	lurking	lurking	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shades	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 depths	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 depths	nmod:poss
25	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 lurking	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 yellow	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hair	nmod:poss
28	uncombed	uncombed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hair	amod
29	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 yellow	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 yellow	cop
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blue	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 long	punct
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 yellow	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 frowzy	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 frowzy	cc
36	frowzy	frowzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blue	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chin	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no beard		slave's chin or browned cheeks	yet	slave nmod:poss; browned cheeks conj	tree rules
2	brown	participle					sun compound	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	slave's eyes				with shades of savagery lurking in eyes's depths; blue property	tree rules
4	is	past	slave's uncombed hair				yellow property	tree rules
5	be		slave's uncombed hair not said here					tree rules
6	be		slave's eyes not said here					tree rules
7	shade			savagery lurking in eyes's depths				nom shade «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 Slave Boy, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 43