The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 81
The slender daughters of the air, who weave the golden fabrics of each man’s life, paused in their work to listen, and as they paused their shuttle fell from their hands and the precious thread of their spinning was broken.
Who acts: slender daughters, daughters, shuttle · What happens: weave, pause, listen, fall, break, work · To what, where: golden fabrics, work, hands, spinning
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slender daughters, daughters, shuttle), 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 | 3 daughters | det |
| 2 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughters | amod |
| 3 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weave | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughters | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weave | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 weave | nsubj |
| 9 | weave | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fabrics | det |
| 11 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fabrics | amod |
| 12 | fabrics | fabric | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 weave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fabrics | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 paused | punct |
| 19 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fabrics | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 work | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 paused | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 listen | mark |
| 24 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 paused | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fell | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fell | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 paused | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 paused | nsubj |
| 29 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fell | advcl |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 shuttle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 weave | advcl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 hands | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 hands | nmod:poss |
| 35 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fell | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thread | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 thread | det |
| 38 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 thread | amod |
| 39 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hands | conj |
| 40 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 broken | mark |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 spinning | nmod:poss |
| 42 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 broken | aux:pass |
| 44 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 thread | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 weave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | present | the slender daughters of the air | the golden fabrics of each man's life | who nsubj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fabric=Product | |||
| 2 | pause | participle | the golden fabrics of each man's life not said here | daughters's work | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in work=Location | ||||
| 3 | listen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pause | past | daughters = daughter | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | daughters's shuttle | daughters's hands and the precious thread | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | break | past · passive | daughters's spinning | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | work | daughters = daughter | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | spin | daughters = daughter | nom spinning «act 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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