The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 114
“O wonderful plough-horse of fire!
To what, where: wonderful plough horse
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: 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 | _ | 6 horse | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 wonderful | discourse |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 4 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 plough | punct |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fire | case |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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