The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Weeping Ship, sentence 114
Very awkward were his fingers and dull of feeling, but his hearing was keen and his sight even keener.
Who acts: hearing, sight, fisherman · What happens: be, hear, sight · To what, where: awkward fingers
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Weeping Ship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearing, sight, fisherman), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 awkward | advmod |
| 2 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fingers | amod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fingers | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dull | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dull | cc |
| 7 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feeling | case |
| 9 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dull | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keen | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 keen | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hearing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keen | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 keen | cop |
| 15 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dull | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 keener | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sight | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keener | nsubj |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 keener | advmod |
| 20 | keener | keen | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 keen | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fisherman's awkward fingers | fisherman nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | fisherman's hearing | keen property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | fisherman's sight | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | hear | fisherman | nom hearing «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sight | fisherman | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=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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