The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 17
The serving-man handed him the reins and the whip.
Who acts: serving man · What happens: hand · To what, where: reins, Ilmarinen
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Home Coming. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serving man), 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 | 4 man | det |
| 2 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 serving | punct |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | nsubj |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 handed | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reins | det |
| 8 | reins | rein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 handed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 whip | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 whip | det |
| 11 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reins | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past | the serving man | the reins and the whip | Ilmarinen | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination rein=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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