The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 91
The speck upon the meadows was a sledge of many colors drawn by a fleet and tireless racer.
Who acts: speck · What happens: be, draw · To what, where: sledge, many colors
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (speck), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 speck | det |
| 2 | speck | speck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sledge | nsubj |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 meadows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meadows | det |
| 5 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 speck | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sledge | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sledge | det |
| 8 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 colors | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 colors | amod |
| 11 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sledge | nmod |
| 12 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 colors | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 fleet | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fleet | det |
| 15 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drawn | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 racer | cc |
| 17 | tireless | tireless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 racer | amod |
| 18 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleet | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the speck upon the meadows | a sledge | of many colors | tree rules | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | many colors not said here | by a fleet and tireless racer | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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