The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 33
“Their hides shine as though they had been rubbed down with lynx-skin brushes and smoothed with lamb’s wool dipped in oil.”
Who acts: hides · What happens: shine, rub down, smooth, dip · To what, where: hides
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 (hides), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shine | punct |
| 2 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hides | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shine | nsubj |
| 4 | shine | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 shine | advmod |
| 6 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 rubbed | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rubbed | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 10 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shine | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 rubbed | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 brushes | case |
| 13 | lynx | lynx | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lynx | punct |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brushes | compound |
| 16 | brushes | brush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rubbed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smoothed | cc |
| 18 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rubbed | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 wool | case |
| 20 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wool | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 lamb | case |
| 22 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dipped | obl |
| 23 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 smoothed | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 oil | case |
| 25 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dipped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shine | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine in a quote | present | milkers's hides | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rub down in a quote | past · perfect · passive | hides = hide | with skin brushes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with brush=Theme | ||||
| 3 | smooth in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | dip in a quote | past | with lamb's wool; in oil | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in oil=Attribute |
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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