--- title: The slender daughters of the air, who weave the golden fabrics of ea… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics description: The slender daughters of the air, who weave the golden fabrics of each man’s life, paused in their work to listen, and as they paused their shuttle fell from their hands and the precious thread of their spinning was broken. Who acts: slender daughters, daughters, shuttle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slender daughters, daughters, shuttle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66819:35:81 # text = The slender daughters of the air, who weave the golden fabrics of each man’s life, paused in their work to listen, and as they paused their shuttle fell from their hands and the precious thread of their spinning was broken. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 daughters daughter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 weave weave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fabrics fabric NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 paused pause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 paused pause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 shuttle shuttle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weave** | present | the slender daughters of the air | the golden fabrics of each man's life | | | | who *nsubj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fabric=Product | | 2 | **pause** | participle | | the golden fabrics of each man's life *not said here* | | daughters's work | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in work=Location | | 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **pause** | past | daughters *= daughter* | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **fall** | past | daughters's shuttle | | | daughters's hands and the precious thread | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **break** | past · passive | | daughters's spinning | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **work** | | daughters *= daughter* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **spin** | | daughters *= daughter* | | | | | | nom spinning «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/82/) - ↑ back to [The Triumph of Music](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66819/35/)