The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 20
With lips drawn tightly over her toothless mouth, Dame Louhi stood at her post, silent and determined, and but one thought filled the minds and hearts of her courageous crew—the thought to serve her and obey her.
Who acts: Dame, one thought · What happens: draw, stand, fill, serve, obey · To what, where: lips, toothless mouth, thought, post, minds
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Pursuit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, one thought), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 lips | case |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lips | acl |
| 4 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 3 drawn | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mouth | amod |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lips | punct |
| 10 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dame | flat |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 post | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 post | nmod:poss |
| 15 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 silent | punct |
| 17 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 post | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 determined | cc |
| 19 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 silent | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 filled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 filled | cc |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 filled | cc |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 thought | nummod |
| 24 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | nsubj |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 minds | det |
| 27 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 filled | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hearts | cc |
| 29 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 minds | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 crew | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 crew | nmod:poss |
| 32 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 crew | amod |
| 33 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hearts | nmod |
| 34 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 thought | det |
| 36 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 serve | mark |
| 38 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 thought | acl |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 serve | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 obey | cc |
| 41 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 serve | conj |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 obey | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | lips not said here | voyage's toothless mouth | tightly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Dame | the thought | Dame's post | with lips | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at post=Location | ||
| 3 | fill | past | one thought | the minds and hearts of Dame's courageous crew | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 4 | serve | to-infinitive | Dame not said here | thought | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | obey | infinitive | Dame not said here | thought | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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