The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 13
The great bull was quickly brought—a ship’s rope around his horns, a hundred strong men tugging at the rope.
Who acts: hundred strong men · What happens: bring, tug · To what, where: great bull
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Wedding Feast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred strong men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bull | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bull | amod |
| 3 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rope | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rope | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 11 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 horns | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horns | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rope | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 men | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hundred | det |
| 17 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 men | nummod |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horns | nmod |
| 20 | tugging | tug | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 men | acl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 rope | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rope | det |
| 23 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tugging | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the great bull | a ship's rope around bull's horns hundred strong men obl; quickly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tug | gerund | hundred strong men not said here | at the rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=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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