The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 48
The long-armed one shaded his brows with his broad palm and looked long and eagerly.
Who acts: armed one · What happens: shade, look · To what, where: brows
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 (armed one), 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 | 5 one | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 armed | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 4 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaded | nsubj |
| 6 | shaded | shade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shaded | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 palm | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 palm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palm | amod |
| 12 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaded | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaded | conj |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eagerly | cc |
| 17 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 15 long | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shade | participle | the armed one | Wainamoinen's brows | with Wainamoinen's broad palm | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | look | past | the armed one not said here | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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