The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 3

All day, from dawn till evening twilight, his brave gray racer flew over the half-frozen earth; and the cuckoos chattered on the dashboard, and the bluebirds sang their sweetest songs.

Who acts: brave gray racer, cuckoos, bluebirds · What happens: fly, freeze, chatter, sing · To what, where: frozen earth, dashboard, sweetest songs

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Friendly Rivals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave gray racer, cuckoos, bluebirds), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dawn	punct
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 dawn	case
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	appos
6	till	till	ADP	_	8 twilight	case
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twilight	compound
8	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dawn	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 racer	nmod:poss
11	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 racer	amod
12	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 racer	compound
13	racer	racer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	over	over	ADP	_	20 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earth	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 frozen	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 half	punct
19	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 earth	amod
20	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 chattered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chattered	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cuckoos	det
24	cuckoos	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 chattered	nsubj
25	chattered	chatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 dashboard	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dashboard	det
28	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chattered	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sang	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sang	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bluebirds	det
32	bluebirds	bluebird	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sang	nsubj
33	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 flew	conj
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 songs	nmod:poss
35	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 songs	amod
36	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sang	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	Ilmarinen's brave gray racer		the frozen earth	day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Location
2	freeze	participle					half compound	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	chatter	past	the cuckoos		the dashboard			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on dashboard=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	the bluebirds	bluebirds's sweetest songs				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
5	sing		bluebirds = bluebird					nom song «communication intransitive»: 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.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 3

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 3