The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 3
A sunny smile overspread his face, and his eyes twinkled for joy; for was he not again in his own dear home land, and would he not soon grasp the hands of his kinsmen and friends whom he had not seen for many months?
Who acts: sunny smile, eyes, smile · What happens: overspread, twinkle, be, not grasp, not see · To what, where: face, hands, kinsmen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Smithy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunny smile, eyes, smile), 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 | 3 smile | det |
| 2 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smile | amod |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overspread | nsubj |
| 4 | overspread | overspread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 4 overspread | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 twinkled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twinkled | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 twinkled | nsubj |
| 11 | twinkled | twinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overspread | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 twinkled | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 land | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 land | cop |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 land | nsubj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 again | advmod |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 land | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 land | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 land | amod |
| 23 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 land | amod |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 land | compound |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overspread | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 grasp | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 grasp | cc |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 grasp | aux |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 grasp | nsubj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 grasp | advmod |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 grasp | advmod |
| 32 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 overspread | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hands | det |
| 34 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 grasp | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 kinsmen | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 37 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 hands | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 friends | cc |
| 39 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 kinsmen | conj |
| 40 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 seen | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 seen | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 seen | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 seen | advmod |
| 44 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 kinsmen | acl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 months | case |
| 46 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 months | amod |
| 47 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 seen | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 overspread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overspread | past | a sunny smile | smile's face | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | twinkle | past | smile's eyes | for joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | smile | again | for smile's own dear home land | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not grasp | would | smile | the hands of smile's kinsmen and friends | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect | smile | smile's kinsmen and friends | month | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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