The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 44
He sat down upon the soft robes and took the reins in his hands.
Who acts: racer · What happens: sit down, take · To what, where: soft robes, reins, hands
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 (racer), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 robes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 robes | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 robes | amod |
| 7 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reins | det |
| 11 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | racer | the soft robes | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon robe=Location | |||
| 2 | take | past | racer not said here | the reins | racer's hands | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rein=Value in hand=Location |
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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