The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Fate of the Sampo, sentence 63
Covered with wounds, the blood flowing from his arms, his head, his heart, he felt his end approaching.
Who acts: master, blood · What happens: cover, flow, feel, approach · To what, where: arms, end
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 (master, blood), 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 | Covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 felt | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 wounds | case |
| 3 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Covered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 blood | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blood | det |
| 6 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wounds | conj |
| 7 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 blood | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 arms | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flowing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 head | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blood | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 heart | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wounds | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Covered | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 end | nmod:poss |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 felt | obj |
| 22 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 felt | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | master not said here | with wounds and the blood and master's head and master's heart | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flow | gerund | the blood and master's head not said here | master's arms | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | master | master's end | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | ||||
| 4 | approach | gerund | master not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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