The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 28
In their blue gowns and white aprons, their long braided hair falling far down their backs—how handsome they are!
Who acts: long braided hair, Methinks · What happens: braid, fall, be · To what, where: backs, blue gowns
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, A Dreadful Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long braided hair, Methinks), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 gowns | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gowns | nmod:poss |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gowns | amod |
| 4 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 aprons | cc |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aprons | amod |
| 7 | aprons | apron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gowns | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hair | punct |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hair | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hair | amod |
| 11 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 hair | amod |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gowns | nmod |
| 13 | falling | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 hair | acl |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 falling | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 backs | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 backs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 falling | obl |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 handsome | punct |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 handsome | advmod |
| 20 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gowns | parataxis |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 handsome | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 handsome | cop |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 gowns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | braid | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fall | gerund | Methinks's long braided hair not said here | Methinks's backs | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down back=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | present | Methinks = methink | handsome property | 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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