The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 114
As the Minstrel still stood on the lofty headland and looked into the far distance, his eyes became very bright and his vision wonderfully clear.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: stand, look, become · To what, where: lofty headland
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Fate of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 Minstrel | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minstrel | det |
| 3 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 headland | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 headland | det |
| 8 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 headland | amod |
| 9 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 14 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 distance | amod |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 became | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 became | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 bright | advmod |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 became | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clear | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 vision | nmod:poss |
| 24 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clear | nsubj |
| 25 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 26 clear | advmod |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bright | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the lofty headland | still | as the Minstrel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on headland=Location | |||
| 2 | look | past | into the far distance | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into distance=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past | Minstrel's eyes | bright property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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