The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Famine, sentence 20
His ruddy face was wrinkled with sorrow although for the moment it was wreathed in smiles.
What happens: wrinkle, wreathe · To what, where: ruddy face, sorrow, smiles
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 face | amod |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrinkled | aux:pass |
| 5 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 sorrow | case |
| 7 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wrinkled | obl |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 14 wreathed | mark |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wreathed | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wreathed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wreathed | aux:pass |
| 14 | wreathed | wreathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wrinkled | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 smiles | case |
| 16 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wreathed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrinkled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrinkle | past · passive | Wainola's ruddy face | with sorrow | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sorrow=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | wreathe | past · passive | sorrow | smiles | moment | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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