The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 61
The autumn sun beamed hot upon his head, and the fresh sea breeze fanned his face and played in his yellow hair.
Who acts: autumn sun, fresh sea breeze · What happens: beam, fan, play · To what, where: head, face, yellow hair
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 (autumn sun, fresh sea breeze), 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 | 3 sun | det |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | compound |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beamed | nsubj |
| 4 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beamed | xcomp |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fanned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fanned | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 breeze | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 breeze | amod |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breeze | compound |
| 14 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fanned | nsubj |
| 15 | fanned | fan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beamed | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 face | nmod:poss |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fanned | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 played | cc |
| 19 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fanned | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hair | amod |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 played | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beam | past | the autumn sun | sun's head | hot property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location | |||
| 2 | fan | past | the fresh sea breeze | sun's face | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | past | the fresh sea breeze not said here | sun's yellow hair | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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