The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Pursuit, sentence 82
Her face was grim with determination, her eyes shone green with the joy of expected triumph, the sound of her harsh voice rose high above the din of clashing oars and dashing waves and the shouts and cries of pursuers and pursued.
Who acts: face, eyes, sound, din, pursuers · What happens: be, shine, expect, rise, clash, dash · To what, where: din, oars, waves, expected triumph
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 (face, eyes, sound, din), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grim | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grim | cop |
| 4 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 determination | case |
| 6 | determination | determination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grim | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shone | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shone | nsubj |
| 10 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grim | parataxis |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shone | xcomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 joy | det |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 triumph | case |
| 16 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 triumph | amod |
| 17 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 joy | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sound | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sound | det |
| 20 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 voice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 voice | amod |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sound | nmod |
| 25 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shone | conj |
| 26 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 rose | advmod |
| 27 | above | above | ADP | _ | 29 din | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 din | det |
| 29 | din | din | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 clashing | mark |
| 31 | clashing | clash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 din | acl |
| 32 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 clashing | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dashing | cc |
| 34 | dashing | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 clashing | conj |
| 35 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 dashing | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 shouts | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 shouts | det |
| 38 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 rose | conj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 cries | cc |
| 40 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 shouts | conj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 pursuers | case |
| 42 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 cries | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 pursued | cc |
| 44 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 pursuers | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mistress's face | with determination; grim property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | Mistress's eyes | green property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | expect | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rise | past | the sound of Mistress's harsh voice | the din | with the joy of expected triumph; high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above din=Location | |||
| 5 | clash | gerund | the din not said here | oars | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oar=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dash | gerund | the din not said here | waves | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient | ||||
| 7 | shout speech: express | present | the sound of Mistress's harsh voice not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | cry speech: express | present | the sound of Mistress's harsh voice not said here | of pursuers | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | pursue | past | pursuers not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | joy | expected triumph | nom joy «feeling 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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