The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 37
“One man, in the old, old times, furrowed the field with a copper ploughshare drawn by horses of fire.
Who acts: One man · What happens: furrow, draw · To what, where: field, copper ploughshare
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 (One man), 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 | _ | 12 furrowed | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 man | nummod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 furrowed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 times | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 times | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 times | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 man | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 12 | furrowed | furrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 field | det |
| 14 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 furrowed | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 ploughshare | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ploughshare | det |
| 17 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ploughshare | compound |
| 18 | ploughshare | ploughshare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 field | nmod |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ploughshare | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 horses | case |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 drawn | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 horses | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 furrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furrow in a quote | past | One man | the field | with a copper ploughshare | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent field=Patient with ploughshare=Instrument | |||
| 2 | draw in a quote | participle | a copper ploughshare not said here | by horses of fire | 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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