The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 83
He turned his face toward the prow and pursed up his mouth to sing.
Who acts: Wainamoinen · What happens: turn, purse up, sing · To what, where: face, prow, mouth
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 (Wainamoinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 7 prow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prow | det |
| 7 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pursed | cc |
| 9 | pursed | purse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 pursed | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pursed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sing | mark |
| 14 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pursed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Wainamoinen | Wainamoinen's face | the prow | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme toward prow=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | purse up | participle | Wainamoinen not said here | Wainamoinen's mouth | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | Wainamoinen not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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