The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 31
With one hand the hero guided the horse, with one arm he supported his bride.
Who acts: hero · What happens: guide, support · To what, where: horse, bride
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 (hero), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 hand | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hand | nummod |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guided | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hero | det |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guided | nsubj |
| 6 | guided | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guided | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 supported | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 arm | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 arm | nummod |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supported | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 supported | nsubj |
| 14 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 guided | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supported | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 guided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guide | past | the hero | the horse | with one hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | support | past | hero | hero's bride | with one arm | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bride=Beneficiary with arm=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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