The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 13

So, when the sun was about going down, the sisters went forth in trailing robes of purple and crimson and gold; and in their hands they bore mighty vessels of foaming milk.

Who acts: sun, robes · What happens: go down, go, trail, bear, foam · To what, where: sisters, robes, mighty vessels, hands

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wicked Hornet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, robes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 going	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sisters	det
12	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	obl
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 trailing	mark
16	trailing	trail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 went	advcl
17	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 trailing	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 purple	case
19	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 robes	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 crimson	cc
21	crimson	crimson	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 purple	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gold	cc
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 purple	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 bore	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 bore	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hands	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hands	nmod:poss
28	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bore	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bore	nsubj
30	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 vessels	amod
32	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bore	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 milk	case
34	foaming	foam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 milk	amod
35	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vessels	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past · progressive	the sun	the sisters		about property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	go	past				forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	trail	gerund		robes of purple and crimson and gold			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
4	bear	past	robes = robe	mighty vessels of foaming milk	purple's hands		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient
5	foam	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wicked Hornet, sentence 13