The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 94
Forthwith the hero harnessed the fiery steed to his plough of magic.
What happens: harness · To what, where: fiery steed
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 | Forthwith | forthwith | ADP | _ | 3 hero | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hero | det |
| 3 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 harnessed | obl |
| 4 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 steed | det |
| 6 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 steed | amod |
| 7 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 harnessed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 plough | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 plough | nmod:poss |
| 10 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 harnessed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 magic | case |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plough | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 harnessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harness | past | the fiery steed | forthwith the hero; to hero's plough of magic | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent steed=Patient to plough=Co-Patient |
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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