The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 85
He opened his mouth till his beard wagged and his long chin trembled.
Who acts: music, beard, long chin · What happens: open, wag, tremble · To what, where: 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 (music, beard, long chin), 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 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | 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 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 wagged | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 beard | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wagged | nsubj |
| 8 | wagged | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trembled | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 chin | amod |
| 12 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | nsubj |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wagged | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | music | music's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wag | past | music's beard | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tremble | participle | music's long chin | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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