The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Friendly Rivals, sentence 4
For two short nights and one long day the journey was continued with never slackening speed.
What happens: continue, not slacken · To what, where: journey
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 nights | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 nights | nummod |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nights | amod |
| 4 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 continued | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 continued | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 day | amod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 continued | aux:pass |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 speed | case |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 slackening | advmod |
| 15 | slackening | slacken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 speed | amod |
| 16 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past · passive | the journey | day; night | with slackening speed | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not slacken | gerund | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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