The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Home Coming, sentence 5
The hero’s steed was led from the stable, it was harnessed to the magic sledge while the cuckoos called loudly and the bluebirds sang sweetly as before.
Who acts: bluebirds · What happens: lead, harness, call, sing · To what, where: steed, stable, cuckoos · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bluebirds), 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 | 2 hero | det |
| 2 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 steed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 hero | case |
| 4 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | aux:pass |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stable | det |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harnessed | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 harnessed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 harnessed | aux:pass |
| 13 | harnessed | harness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 led | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sledge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sledge | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sledge | amod |
| 17 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 harnessed | obl |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 cuckoos | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cuckoos | det |
| 20 | cuckoos | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 harnessed | obl |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 cuckoos | acl |
| 22 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 21 called | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sang | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bluebirds | det |
| 25 | bluebirds | bluebird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sang | nsubj |
| 26 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | conj |
| 27 | sweetly | sweetly | ADV | _ | 26 sang | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 before | case |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 sang | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the hero's steed | the stable | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from stable=Destination | ||||
| 2 | harness | past · passive | steed | to the magic sledge; the cuckoos obl | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to sledge=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the cuckoos not said here | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | the bluebirds | sweetly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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