The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 96

Then he drove with speed, out through the shadowy pine woods and across the desolate plains, till he came to the field of serpents—a barren waste lying cold and dreary under the empty sky.

Who acts: hero, barren waste · What happens: drive, desolate, come, lie · To what, where: shadowy pine woods, plains, field, cold, empty sky

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 (hero, barren waste), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 drove	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 speed	case
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woods	punct
7	out	out	ADV	_	12 woods	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	12 woods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
10	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woods	amod
11	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 woods	compound
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drove	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 desolate	cc
14	across	across	ADP	_	16 desolate	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 desolate	det
16	desolate	desolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 woods	conj
17	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 desolate	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 desolate	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 field	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 field	det
24	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 serpents	case
26	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 field	nmod
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 waste	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 waste	det
29	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 waste	amod
30	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 field	appos
31	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 waste	acl
32	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lying	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dreary	cc
34	dreary	dreary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cold	conj
35	under	under	ADP	_	38 sky	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 sky	det
37	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sky	amod
38	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lying	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	hero		the shadowy pine woods	then	with speed	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
2	desolate	infinitive	hero not said here	plains				tree rules
3	come	past	hero		the field of serpents			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location
4	lie	gerund	a barren waste not said here	cold	the empty sky			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cold=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Field of Serpents, sentence 96