The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Graybeard and His Son, sentence 121
He dipped his finger gently into the ointment; he touched it to the tip of his tongue.
Who acts: father · What happens: dip, touch · To what, where: finger, ointment
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Graybeard and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dipped | nsubj |
| 2 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dipped | obj |
| 5 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 dipped | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ointment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ointment | det |
| 8 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dipped | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 touched | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touched | nsubj |
| 11 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dipped | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 touched | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 tip | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tip | det |
| 15 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touched | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tongue | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tip | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dip | past | father | father's finger | the ointment | gently property | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme into ointment=Destination | ||
| 2 | touch | past | father | finger | to the tip of father's tongue | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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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