The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 29
The whip-lash whistled in the air, the copper rings on the horse’s harness made merry music.
Who acts: whip lash, harness · What happens: whistle, ring, make · To what, where: whip lash, merry music
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 (whip lash, harness), 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 lash | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lash | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 whip | punct |
| 4 | lash | lash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rings | nsubj |
| 5 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lash | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whistled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rings | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 copper | det |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rings | nsubj |
| 12 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 18 made | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 harness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 horse | case |
| 17 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rings | advcl |
| 19 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 music | amod |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | participle | the whip lash not said here | in the air | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ring | present | the whip lash | the copper nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the horse's harness | merry music | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material music=Product |
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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