The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 46
“It is only the light of the setting sun shining in their eyes,” she says.
Who acts: house, setting sun, mistress · What happens: be, shine, say · To what, where: light, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (house, setting sun, mistress), 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 | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 light | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 light | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 light | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 9 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sun | compound |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | nmod |
| 11 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sun | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shining | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 light | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 says | nsubj |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | house | the light | of the setting sun | tree rules | |||
| 2 | shine in a quote | gerund | the setting sun not said here | fears's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | mistress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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