The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 18
Of the two massive war shields that hung at the ship’s bows she made herself a pair of round eyes, keen as the eyes of a panther, restless, untiring.
Who acts: that, Mistress · What happens: hang, make, untir · To what, where: bows, Mistress
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 (that, Mistress), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shields | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shields | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 shields | nummod |
| 4 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shields | amod |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shields | compound |
| 6 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hung | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hung | nsubj |
| 8 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ship | det |
| 11 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 ship | case |
| 13 | bows | bows | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hung | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hung | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 made | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pair | det |
| 18 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pair | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 keen | punct |
| 23 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hung | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eyes | det |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 keen | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 panther | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 panther | det |
| 29 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 restless | punct |
| 31 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 keen | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 untiring | punct |
| 33 | untiring | untir | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hung | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | that | the ship's bows | of the two massive war shields | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bows=Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | Mistress | Mistress | a pair of round eyes obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary pair=Product | |||
| 3 | untir | gerund | that not said here | tree rules |
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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