The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Tempest, sentence 27
Wise old Louhi, gray and grim and toothless, was standing in her doorway.
Who acts: Wise old Louhi · What happens: stand · To what, where: doorway
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 (Wise old Louhi), 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 | Wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Louhi | amod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Louhi | amod |
| 3 | Louhi | Louhi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gray | punct |
| 5 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Louhi | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grim | cc |
| 7 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gray | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 toothless | cc |
| 9 | toothless | toothless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gray | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Louhi | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 standing | aux |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 doorway | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 15 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Wise old Louhi | Louhi's doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
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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