The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 62
Her own hand trembles as she reaches for the teat.
Who acts: own hand, mistress · What happens: tremble, reach
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 (own hand, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hand | amod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trembles | nsubj |
| 4 | trembles | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 reaches | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reaches | nsubj |
| 7 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trembles | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 teat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 teat | det |
| 10 | teat | teat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reaches | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trembles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | present | mistress's own hand | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | present | mistress | for the teat | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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