The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 43
His sledge was standing beside the door; the fleet-footed racer was pawing the ground; the cuckoos were calling, and the bluebirds were singing.
Who acts: sledge, footed racer, cuckoos, bluebirds · What happens: stand, paw, call, sing · To what, where: door, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sledge, footed racer, cuckoos, bluebirds), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sledge | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 standing | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 pawing | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 racer | det |
| 10 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 footed | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 fleet | punct |
| 12 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 racer | amod |
| 13 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pawing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pawing | aux |
| 15 | pawing | paw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 standing | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pawing | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 calling | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cuckoos | det |
| 20 | cuckoos | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 calling | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 calling | aux |
| 22 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pawing | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 singing | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 singing | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bluebirds | det |
| 26 | bluebirds | bluebird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 singing | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 singing | aux |
| 28 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 pawing | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | Ilmarinen's sledge | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside door=Location | ||||
| 2 | paw | past · progressive | the footed racer | the ground | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | past · progressive | the cuckoos | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past · progressive | the bluebirds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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