The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 98
Down his cheeks the water-drops went coursing, they ran down his beard and down his heaving breast.
Who acts: drops, water drops · What happens: cheek, go, course, run down · To what, where: beard
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 (drops, water drops), 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 | Down | down | ADP | _ | 3 cheeks | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cheeks | cheek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drops | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 7 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cheeks | ccomp |
| 9 | coursing | course | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 went | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cheeks | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beard | nmod:poss |
| 15 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 breast | cc |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 breast | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 breast | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heaving | heaving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breast | amod |
| 20 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beard | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheek | present | drops = drop not said here | heart nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the water drops | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | course | gerund | the water drops not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | run down | past | drops = drop | heart's beard and heart's heaving breast | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme beard=Trajectory |
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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