The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 129
The young men hid their faces, and the golden-haired maidens cowered beneath the benches.
Who acts: young men, haired maidens · What happens: hide, cower · To what, where: faces
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, haired maidens), 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 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 faces | nmod:poss |
| 6 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cowered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cowered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maidens | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 haired | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 golden | punct |
| 12 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maidens | amod |
| 13 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cowered | nsubj |
| 14 | cowered | cower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 17 benches | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 benches | det |
| 17 | benches | bench | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cowered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the young men | men's faces | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cower | past | the haired maidens | beneath the benches | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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