The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Smithy, sentence 30
Each gazed into the other’s eyes, and for a time not another word was spoken—the hearts of both were so full of joy.
Who acts: hearts · What happens: gaze, speak, be · To what, where: Each, eyes, word · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hearts), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 gazed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 other | case |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gazed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spoken | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoken | obl |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 word | advmod |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spoken | aux:pass |
| 17 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gazed | conj |
| 18 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 hearts | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hearts | det |
| 20 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 full | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 both | case |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 hearts | nmod |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 full | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 full | advmod |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gazed | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | participle · passive | Each | the other's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · passive | another word | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the hearts of both | of joy; full property | tree rules |
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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