The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 143

One after another, they marched slowly and orderly out of the marshes and out of the woods, the false milk cows going foremost calmly chewing their cuds, and the false yearlings gambolling behind.

Who acts: One, false milk cows · What happens: march, go, chew · To what, where: yearlings gambolling, marshes, cuds

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Slave Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, false milk cows), 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	6 marched	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 another	case
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	1 One	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 marched	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marched	nsubj
6	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 marched	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 orderly	cc
9	orderly	orderly	ADV	_	7 slowly	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 marshes	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 marshes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 marshes	det
13	marshes	marsh	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 marched	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 woods	cc
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 woods	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 woods	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woods	det
18	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 marshes	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cows	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cows	det
21	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cows	amod
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cows	compound
23	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 marshes	conj
24	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 cows	acl
25	foremost	foremost	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
26	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
27	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 going	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 cuds	nmod:poss
29	cuds	cud	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 chewing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 gambolling	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gambolling	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 yearlings	det
33	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 yearlings	amod
34	yearlings	yearling	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 gambolling	compound
35	gambolling	gambolling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 marched	obl
36	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 marched	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 marched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	march	past	One after another	yearlings gambolling	the marshes and the woods and the false milk cows	beasts = beast nsubj; behind, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out marsh=Trajectory
2	go	gerund	the false milk cows not said here			calmly, foremost property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	chew	gerund	the false milk cows not said here	beasts's cuds			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Slave Boy, sentence 143