The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tree of Magic, sentence 30
A cloud passed over his face, and the last shout died, half-uttered, on his lips.
Who acts: cloud, last shout · What happens: pass, die, utter · To what, where: face, lips
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 (cloud, last shout), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 face | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 died | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shout | det |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shout | amod |
| 11 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uttered | punct |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 uttered | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 half | punct |
| 16 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 died | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lips | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 lips | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lips | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 uttered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a cloud | cloud's face | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over face=Location | ||||
| 2 | die | past | the last shout | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | participle | the last shout not said here | cloud's lips | half compound | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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