The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 19
He lifted the cap which had concealed his forehead, he loosed the broad scarf that had been well drawn up about his chin and cheeks.
Who acts: Wainola · What happens: lift, conceal, loose, draw up · To what, where: cap, broad scarf
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Famine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainola), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 concealed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 concealed | aux |
| 7 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 cap | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 9 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concealed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 loosed | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 loosed | nsubj |
| 12 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 scarf | det |
| 14 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scarf | amod |
| 15 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 loosed | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawn | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 drawn | aux:pass |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 drawn | advmod |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 scarf | acl:relcl |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drawn | compound:prt |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 chin | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 chin | nmod:poss |
| 24 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cheeks | cc |
| 26 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 chin | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Wainola | the cap | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | conceal | past · perfect · passive | the cap | Wainola's forehead obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | loose | past | Wainola | the broad scarf | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent scarf=Patient | ||||
| 4 | draw up | past · perfect · passive | the broad scarf | about Wainola's chin and cheeks; well property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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