The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 32
The North Wind gently drove him along, the South Wind beckoned him forward.
Who acts: North Wind, South Wind · What happens: drive, beckon · To what, where: horse
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 (North Wind, South Wind), 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 | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 drove | advmod |
| 5 | drove | drive | 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 drove | obj |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 drove | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beckoned | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wind | det |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Wind | compound |
| 11 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 beckoned | nsubj |
| 12 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 drove | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beckoned | obj |
| 14 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 beckoned | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the North Wind | horse | along, gently property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | beckon | past | the South Wind | horse | forward property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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