The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Wedding Feast, sentence 71
“Take the bridegroom’s horse, and loose him gently from the shafts.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, lose · To what, where: horse, bridegroom, shafts
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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bridegroom | det |
| 4 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 bridegroom | case |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loose | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 loose | cc |
| 9 | loose | lose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loose | obj |
| 11 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 9 loose | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 shafts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shafts | det |
| 14 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 loose | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the bridegroom's horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | bridegroom | the shafts | gently property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme from shaft=Initial_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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