The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 18
One word to the steed, and they were away; the low-roofed dwelling, the village, the friends at Pohyola, all were quickly left behind.
Who acts: words · What happens: be, roof, leave behind · To what, where: all, One word
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 (words), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 word | nummod |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 steed | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 steed | det |
| 5 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 away | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 away | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 away | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 away | cop |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 word | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dwelling | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dwelling | det |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 roofed | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 low | punct |
| 15 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 dwelling | amod |
| 16 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 village | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelling | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 friends | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 friends | det |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dwelling | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Pohyola | case |
| 24 | Pohyola | Pohyola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 friends | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 left | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 left | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 left | aux:pass |
| 28 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 29 left | advmod |
| 29 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 dwelling | parataxis |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 29 left | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 word | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | words = word | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roof | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | leave behind | past · passive | all | behind, quickly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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