The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 112
He loosed the long reins with which he had guided his steed and lifted the plough from the ground.
Who acts: Ilmarinen · What happens: loose, guide, lift · To what, where: long reins, steed, plough, ground
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Field of Serpents. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilmarinen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 loosed | nsubj |
| 2 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reins | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reins | amod |
| 5 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loosed | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 guided | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 guided | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 guided | aux |
| 10 | guided | guide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 reins | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 steed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guided | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 guided | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plough | det |
| 16 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 loosed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loose | past | Ilmarinen | the long reins | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rein=Patient | ||||
| 2 | guide | past · perfect | Ilmarinen | Ilmarinen's steed | with the long reins | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | |||
| 3 | lift | past | Ilmarinen not said here | the plough | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent plough=Theme from ground=Destination |
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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