The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 16

The moon was just a little above him; the stars were right at his fingers’ ends; in another moment he would grasp them all.

Who acts: moon, tree · What happens: be, grasp · To what, where: ends, stars

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Tempest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, tree), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 right	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 little	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moon	acl:relcl
7	above	above	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 little	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 moon	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stars	det
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 right	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 ends	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fingers	nmod:poss
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ends	nmod:poss
17	’	's	PART	_	16 fingers	case
18	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 right	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 grasp	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 moment	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	22 moment	det
22	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grasp	obl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grasp	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grasp	aux
25	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 right	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grasp	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 them	nmod:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moon not said here			above tree; little property	tree rules
2	is	past	the moon		at tree's fingers's ends	the stars nsubj; right property	tree rules
3	grasp	would	tree	stars = star	moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 16