The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Recipe, sentence 16
He turned and looked, and lo! a radiant vision appeared before him in the firelight.
Who acts: Wainamoinen, radiant vision · What happens: turn, look, appear · To what, where: firelight
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Recipe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wainamoinen, radiant vision), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 looked | cc |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 appeared | cc |
| 7 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 12 appeared | discourse |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 lo | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vision | det |
| 10 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vision | amod |
| 11 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 appeared | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 firelight | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 firelight | det |
| 17 | firelight | firelight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Wainamoinen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | Wainamoinen not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | a radiant vision | the firelight | before Wainamoinen | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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