The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Golden Maiden, sentence 100
In face and form she was indeed lovely—lovelier than any other woman, save one, that Ilmarinen had ever seen.
Who acts: heat, Ilmarinen · What happens: be, save, see · To what, where: face, one
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Golden Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heat, Ilmarinen), 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 | _ | 2 face | case |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lovely | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 form | cc |
| 4 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 face | conj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lovely | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lovely | cop |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 lovely | advmod |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 lovelier | punct |
| 10 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 lovely | conj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lovelier | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 save | punct |
| 16 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 lovely | parataxis |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 save | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seen | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 20 | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seen | aux |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 seen | advmod |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 save | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lovely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | heat | face and form | indeed, lovely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | heat not said here | than any other woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | one | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Ilmarinen | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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