The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 33
He looked toward the south, and a smile of pleasure overspread his face.
Who acts: Eastward, smile · What happens: look, overspread, smile · To what, where: face, pleasure
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 (Eastward, smile), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 5 south | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 south | det |
| 5 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 overspread | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 overspread | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 smile | det |
| 9 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overspread | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pleasure | case |
| 11 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 smile | nmod |
| 12 | overspread | overspread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 overspread | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Eastward | toward the south | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward south=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overspread | past | a smile of pleasure | Eastward's face | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | smile | pleasure | nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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