The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, A Dreadful Vengeance, sentence 68
The milkmaids with their white aprons and braided hair vanish like snow-flakes in a turbulent flood of waters.
Who acts: milkmaids, hair, waters · What happens: braid, vanish, flood
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 (milkmaids, hair, waters), 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 | 2 milkmaids | det |
| 2 | milkmaids | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 braided | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 aprons | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 aprons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 aprons | amod |
| 6 | aprons | apron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 milkmaids | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 braided | cc |
| 8 | braided | braid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vanish | nsubj |
| 10 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 braided | ccomp |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 flakes | case |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flakes | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 snow | punct |
| 14 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vanish | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 flood | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flood | det |
| 17 | turbulent | turbulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flood | amod |
| 18 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flakes | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 waters | case |
| 20 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flood | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 braided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | braid | past | the milkmaids with milkmaids's white aprons | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | vanish | present | hair | like snow flakes in a turbulent flood of waters | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flood | waters | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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