The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 3
The sun was not yet up, but a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky foretold the coming of brilliant day.
Who acts: tinge · What happens: not yet up, foretell, come · To what, where: sun
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tree of Magic. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tinge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yet | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yet | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 yet | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 yet | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 foretold | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 foretold | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tinge | det |
| 10 | tinge | tinge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foretold | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 yellow | case |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tinge | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sky | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sky | det |
| 15 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sky | amod |
| 16 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yellow | obl |
| 17 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 yet | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 coming | det |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 foretold | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 day | amod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 yet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not yet up | past · passive | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | foretell | participle | a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | a tinge of yellow in the eastern sky not said here | day | 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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