The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 64

His magic sledge is glowing bright and golden as the sun. Six yellow birds sit on his shafts sweetly singing, and of bluebirds there are seven perched gayly on the dashboard.

Who acts: magic sledge, Six yellow birds, shafts, seven · What happens: glow, sit, sing, be, perch · To what, where: sun., shafts, dashboard

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 (magic sledge, Six yellow birds, shafts, seven), 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	3 sledge	nmod:poss
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sledge	amod
3	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glowing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glowing	aux
5	glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glowing	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 golden	cc
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bright	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 sun.	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun.	det
11	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 golden	obl
12	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 birds	nummod
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sit	nsubj
15	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sun.	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 shafts	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 shafts	nmod:poss
18	shafts	shaft	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sit	obl
19	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	20 singing	advmod
20	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 shafts	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 are	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 are	cc
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 bluebirds	case
24	bluebirds	bluebird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 are	obl
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 glowing	parataxis
27	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 are	nsubj
28	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 seven	acl
29	gayly	gayly	ADV	_	28 perched	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 dashboard	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dashboard	det
32	dashboard	dashboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 perched	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glow	present · progressive	bridegroom's magic sledge			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	present	Six yellow birds	the sun. not said here	bridegroom's shafts		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent sun.=Theme on shaft=Location
3	sing speech: express	gerund	bridegroom's shafts not said here			sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	present	seven		there	of bluebirds	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	perch	participle			the dashboard	gayly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dashboard=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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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 64

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 64