The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Unexpected Journey, sentence 130
“Harness my trusty steed and hitch him to my enchanted sledge.
What happens: hitch, enchant · To what, where: horse, trusty steed
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Unexpected Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 steed | punct |
| 2 | Harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steed | nsubj |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steed | amod |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hitch | cc |
| 7 | hitch | hitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 steed | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hitch | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sledge | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sledge | amod |
| 12 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hitch | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 steed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hitch in a quote | infinitive | horse | to my enchanted sledge | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to sledge=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | enchant in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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