The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 152
The storm ceased, the fog was lifted, and the sun shone out, bright and clear in the midst of the sky.
Who acts: storm, sun · What happens: cease, lift, shine out · To what, where: fog, midst
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 (storm, sun), 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 | 2 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fog | det |
| 6 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | aux:pass |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ceased | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shone | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shone | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sun | det |
| 12 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | nsubj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lifted | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shone | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bright | punct |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shone | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clear | cc |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bright | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 midst | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 midst | det |
| 21 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sky | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sky | det |
| 24 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 midst | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the storm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lift | past · passive | the fog | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shine out | participle | the sun | the midst of the sky | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in midst=Location |
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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